Are you tired of creating Nant task using the plain old NotePad, or maybe you’re using the Visual Studio for editing the XML for NAnt, here comes the NantBuilder.

NAntBuilder is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for NAnt, the popular process-automating tool. It is designed to be a powerful NAnt script creator, editor, and debugger.

NAntBuilder enables you to manage your build process easily, allowing you to focus on more interesting and important works. Its full-featured code completion will save you thousands of keystrokes while authoring NAnt script. And the integrated NAnt script debugger will help you execute NAnt script task by task. With all these features, NAntBuilder provides a flexible, easy-to-use platform to author, debug and execute NAnt script.

Here are some screenshots using the NantBuilder when I’m creating my nant task for QuickSaas project of BlastSuites

Figure 1: Build output, when the NAnt was run

Figure 2: List of Task

Figure 3: Available NAnt Tasks

Figure 4: Available elements for a certain task

Figure 5: Visual Studio 2010 look and feel

Conclusion:

Even though this is not a free/open source sound, its quite useful, because I’m able to used it for 30 days for trial; and I’m only creating a heavy task for NAnt once and other updates can be done by my plain old notepad.