NAnt or MSBuild, which one to choose and when?

Question

I am aware there are other NAnt and MSBuild related questions on Stack Overflow, but I could not find a direct comparison between the two and so here is the question.

Answer 1

We use both. NAnt is responsible for all "scripting" stuff, like copying, deploying on IIS, creating packages and MSBuild is responsible for building the solution. Then we can avoid problems with non-supported .NET 4.0 by a new version of NAnt.

NAnt is also more scalable. If we want to migrate the deployment scripts to production servers, we only copy the build file and install a proper version of .NET - no Visual Studio problems with csproj files:)