# NAnt External Tools and Extensions

This page lists external resources for NAnt: Tools, Extensions. Reports of broken links and suggestions are welcome and encouraged.

## Tools

- ### ColorNAnt

  The Perl script ColorNAnt is a wrapper for 'NAnt' and produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting. Colour schemes can be customized.

  Compatibility: | All versions
  URL: | http://colornant.googlepages.com
  Contact: | aritmeester+colornant@gmail.com
  License: | GNU General Public License

- ### NAntBuilder

  NAntBuilder is an NAnt IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting and script debugging. It is designed to be a powerul NAnt script creator, editor, and debugger.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.91 Alpha2
  URL: | http://www.polestarsoft.com/
  Contact: | support@polestarsoft.com
  License: | Commercial

- ### NAntGraph

  NAntGraph is a documentation tool designed to make it easier to understand NAnt or Ant build files by producing a diagram showing targets and dependencies.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.85
  URL: | http://www.nichesoftware.co.nz/nantgraph
  Contact: | bevan@nichesoftware.co.nz
  License: | GNU General Public License

- ### NAntPad

  NAntPad is a concise tool for developing and editing build files for NAnt. The UI is similar to explorer with a tree navigator, and an editing and viewing pane for tasks.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.85
  URL: | N.A.
  Contact: | N.A.
  License: | Commercial

- ### NAnt Wizard

  NAnt Wizard is a compact and lightweight GUI front-end for NAnt. Application is contained in a single small exe file that is why it can be put into your version control system along with source code.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.85
  URL: | http://www.nantwizard.com
  Contact: | Contact Page
  License: | Free for non-commercial use

## Extensions

- ### NAntContrib

  NAntContrib is the project for tasks and tools that haven't made it into the main NAnt distribution yet or for whatever reason don't belong there.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.85
  URL: | http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net
  Contact: | Developer mailing list
  License: | GNU General Public License

- ### NAntScript

  NAntScript provides custom tasks that allow you to script other custom tasks using regular NAnt script.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.85
  URL: | http://code.google.com/p/nantscript/wiki/NAntScript
  Contact: | flukefan@googlemail.com or neil.paterson.logan@googlemail.com
  License: | GNU General Public License

- ### StyleCopCmd

  StyleCopCmd provides both a command-line interface and NAnt task for Microsoft's source code analysis tool, StyleCop.
  More than just a simple front-end, StyleCopCmd produces beautiful HTML reports about any violations it discovers.

  Compatibility: | NAnt 0.86
  URL: | http://stylecopcmd.sourceforge.net
  Contact: | sakutz@gmail.com
  License: | BSD License