Summary NAnt and NAntContrib are incredibly useful for building .NET projects, whether you have Visual Studio.NET or not. NAnt gives some functionality that VS.NET does not have. NAntContrib makes some tasks, such as creating Virtual Directories in IIS for ASP.NET and Webservices, much easier. NAnt allows Open Source developers and VS.NET users alike to easily build large projects with complicated inter-dependencies. In the next few chapters, the most powerful functionality of NAnt will be introduced, so the best is yet to come. |