Donnerstag, Oktober 13, 2005
Visual Build Tools
I just want a simple tool to build several Visual Studio .Net 2003 projects, maybe run something to create an installer and run some batch files to collect things for distribution. It's enough if tool just captures console output. It should stop on error. Nice GUI is a must.
Nant is ugly and just text based and does not well integrate with Visual Studio .Net 2003.
MSBuild is the future but only fun with Visual Studio .Net 2005.
FinalBuilder seems to be a very slick product, but it's not free and currently not in our tool list. Maybe later? Well, Joel Spolsky is recommending it, that's a huge pro anyway:).
Visual Build Professional looks not as slick but has a nice feature list. Not in our tool list too.
Yesterday I found this one and I am quite happy with it in the first run: MegaBuild. .Net, cheap, looks nice and simple:
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