.Net/C# Build Tool - Is NAnt a preferred tool?

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Published on 2010-03-11T14:36:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 16:37 UTC
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I'm about to set up an automatic build of a .net/C# project.

I've searched the net quite a bit, and there are a lot of references to this tool called 'NAnt'.

My questions are:

Is NAnt considered a good tool for this, is it still used?
Are there other toos that are the de facto standard for such a task?

From the information on the projects's sourceforge page, it doesn't seem to have been much development going on the lates years. The same applies to the NAntContrib project.

Thanks!

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