Found this
great article on using Nant's <solution> tag to compile a VS.Net solution. Has some great advice on creating a deploy folder and copying necessary files into it to then manually deploy them - currently I use UnLeashIT to get the files I need for a live or test environment. This way you get an automated hit at it.
I'm going to start investigating Team Foundation Server and
MSBuild shortly to see what M$ have done with their Nant copy. Found this
great article over at
notgartner.com that explains the history of Ant, Nant, and MSBuild.