Chapter 12 Tools

• SubText
  Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for you.

• NAnt - |
  Automate nearly all processes for your builds, tests, and deployment
  
• MSBuild - |
  Manage your project’s builds and tie into automated continuous integration processes
  
• MSBee - |
  Addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications that target .NET 1.1
  
• MSBuild Community Tasks - |
  A collection of community-written tasks that add functionality to MSBuild, including the ability to call FxCop, NDoc, NUnit, and much more
  
• MSBuild Sidekick - |
  A visual editor for creating and managing MSBuild and TFS Build Type files
  
• CruiseControl.NET - |
  Tie together every developer’s work via automated build and testing processes to get a constantly updated picture of your project’s health
  
• CI Factory - |
  Canned CI server able to build most any project out of the box
  
• Unleash It - |
  Web application deployment tool
  
• Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects - |
  Eases ASP.NET deployment in Visual Studio 2005
  
• WiX - |
  Toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code