Additional NAnt Tasks

by Tomas Restrepo

This is a set of NAnt Tasks that you can use for your own buildscripts. This is a very early version (0.1.2.0), so there's not much yet. Here's what you'll find here:

• Checksum: This is a basic port of Ant's original Checksum task. For now, it only allows you to calculate a checksum value for a set of files.
• Concat: This one allows you to concatenate a set of input files. Again, it's a basic port of Ant's Concat task.
• MailEx: This one is a modified version of NAnt's original Mail task, which uses filesets instead of attributes to especify attachments.
• MgmtClassGen: This one allows you to execute mgmtclassgen.exe from your NAnt scripts to generate typed WMI classes.
• NUnitReport: This is a NAnt/NUnit version of Ant's JUnitReport task. It allows you to generate an HTML report of your NUnit test results. You can see an example of such a report here.
• Record: This is a preliminary version of Ant's Record task, which allows you to record parts of your build's output (log) to a file. It's very useful when combined with NUnitReport to generate full-blown reports of your daily builds that you can send via e-mail.

I hope to keep improving these tasks and adding new ones in the following weeks.

Note: You'll need the absolute latest NAnt code to run these tasks effectively, as getting them to work correctly required fixing a few bugs in NAnt itself. Be sure to grab the latest snapshot directly out of NAnt's CVS.

Grab the code here