NAnt tip

Currntly I am working on a NAnt script to update all of our open source project source. Basically I need to use checkout and update taskes for SVN and CVS. Using and is smooth, if you have the lastest Subversion (currently 1.4.2) installed . But and will cause issues since it seems that cannot work nicely with . I got a problem that I cannot successfully login to the server. After done some research, here is the workaround.
1. Dowonload the lastest CVSNT.
2. Put cvs.exe into the Nant bin folder.
3. Turn attribute “usesharpcvslib” to false.
Example:

Edit NAnt file in Visual Studio .NET

I use NAnt recently to create build files for my current project. One of the issue I found is how to edit the NAnt build file with intellisense. Actually we can take advantage of the XML schema file come with NAnt to put intellisense feature into Visual Studio.NET. Here is the process:
1. After unzipping NAnt, look for schema folder. Copy nant.xsd into your visual studio .net installation folder, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml

2. Open nant.xsd and find out the defined namespeace, which is “
xmlns=http://nant.sf.net/schemas/nant.xsd“.

3. Add this name space into NAnt build fild, like that:

4. In visual Studio, right click NAnt build file, select open with “HTML/XML Editor (Default)”.

5. All set. You should be able to use intellisense now.