How do you use Nant to build an ASP.Net MVC project?

Question

Does anyone have an example nant build file to build an MVC2 project? I'm not sure whether you can use msbuild or whether you have to use aspnet_compiler or if nant will just handle it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you looked at this blog post?:

http://unethicalblogger.com/node/224

It was written for MVC1 so you might need to do some tweaking for MVC2.

Answer 2

Using the msbuild task on your solution file should build all projects in that solution, including MVC projects. Here's a sample from my own build script:

<target name="msbuild_solution">
    <msbuild project="build.sln"  verbosity="minimal">
        <property name="Configuration" value="Release" />
        <arg value="/t:Build" />
        <arg value="/nologo" />
        <arg value="/noconsolelogger" />
        <arg value="/m:2" />
        <arg value="/tv:3.5" />
    </msbuild>
</target>