building .net applications without Visual Studio

Question

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!

Answer 1

Believe me without an IDE you just waste your time and it is a real pain !

if you feel that visual studio is expensive you can try the express editions or go for MonoDevelop or sharpdevelop

Answer 2

You don't need to be using another IDE to use a different build mechanism.

Not using an IDE is really a waste of productivity. You could use sharpdevelop or monodevelop though if you don't want to use Visual Studio.