Spent the whole day doing R&D for possible automated build options. It seems NAnt based solutions like Hippo.Net, Draco.Net etc. are good but it will require the effort of porting the vs.net sln build files to NAnt scripts. Slingshot for some reason didn't work on my system . I think i need to devote some more time to this but the current deadline does not permit such luxuries. I've got tons of documentation and tools downloaded, hope i can go through them on the weekend.

I did find a lot of material on build options though. Also looked at FinalBuilder, seems nice but i am looking for somethign that's free.

So finally i modified BuildIt a bit and will be using that until i can get some time to hack out a customized solution or get the hang of using NAnt.

One other thing i realized while reading through some sites was that it might be better if i move all my unit tests into a seperate project and then i can include that as a post build step.

Currently i am reading the Log4net manual, have to instrument a previous version of the application to do some debugging. Debugging distributed applications is such a pain.