C# Project Management with Maven

Question

Hi

Anyone had experience of managing C# based projects with Maven?

If yes , please tell me a few words about it , how weird would it be to create such a setup.

Thanks

Answer 1

There is a NMaven project at codeplex but it doesn't seem to be active or popular. See also these questions:

• maven for .NET (DroidIn.net's link to his tutorial looks promising)
• Why is there no need for maven in .NET
• Is there a Maven Alternative or port for the .NET world?

Answer 2

Maven is language agnostic and it should be possible to use it with other languages than Java, including C#. For example, the Maven Compiler Plugin can be configured to use the csharp compiler. There is also a .NET Maven plugin and there was a maven-csharp on javaforge.com (seems dead).

But Java is getting most attention and man power and there is not much done with other languages. So, while using Maven with C# is in theory possible, I wouldn't expect much support and feedback from the community (i.e. in case of problem, you'll be alone). I don't know if using Maven for C# would thus be a good idea. I wouldn't recommend it actually (I may be wrong of course).

Answer 3

You might also check out NPanday (it is a project I am involved in). While it still needs some work to more closely align to Maven's best practices, it is the most complete and active alternative available now. One feature that is unique to it is the existence of a Visual Studio Add-in for generating the correct pom.xml from the IDE.