I'm interested to hear about people working with building .net applications using MSBuild, NAnt or similar tools. What are you using, why are you using it instead of the VS IDE?
I like to use different editors quite a bit and I'm thinking of changing over to using something that can keep me IDE free.
Thanks!
I don't know anyone that is using NAnt or MSBuild instead of the IDE. Everyone I know that uses one or the other is using those tools in support of and in addition to the IDE. It's not that you can't write .NET code without and IDE such as VS, Mono or SharpDevelop, but they will save you a world of pain along the way.
Also, NAnt is no longer being developed or really supported. The last beta was something like two years ago. I would not recommend using it, though I know many that swear by it (and we even have to use it here for certain legacy projects).