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jkohlhepp — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:51:28 GMT

  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
  <dict-foreach dictionary="MyDict" key-property="_key">
    <echo message="The value of the key ${_key} is ${dict::get-value('MyDict',_key)}"/>
  </dict-foreach>

Building NAntCollections
NAntCollections is coded against the .NET Framework version 2.0.
NAntCollections can be built using Visual Studio 2005. It can also
be built using the NAntCollections.build script included with the
source code.

Using NAntCollections within NAnt scripts
In order for a NAnt script to be able to use the tasks and functions defined
in this library, NAnt must be able to locate and scan the compiled DLL.
Details on the various way to have NAnt find the library can be found in the
NAnt documentation here under "Loading custom extensions":
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/fundamentals/tasks.html

Copyright © 2007 Justin Kohlhepp

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jkohlhepp — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:50:50 GMT

  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
  <dict-foreach dictionary="MyDict" key-property="_key">
    <echo message="The value of the key ${_key} is ${dict::get-value('MyDict',_key)}"/>
  </dict-foreach>

Building NAntCollections
NAntCollections is coded against the .NET Framework version 2.0. Currently
NAntCollections is most easily built using Visual Studio 2005. Eventually
build scripts will be created for a more formal build process, and prebuilt
releases will be created at major milestones.

Using NAntCollections within NAnt scripts
In order for a NAnt script to be able to use the tasks and functions defined
in this library, NAnt must be able to locate and scan the compiled DLL.
Details on the various way to have NAnt find the library can be found in the
NAnt documentation here under "Loading custom extensions":
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/fundamentals/tasks.html

Copyright © 2007 Justin Kohlhepp

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jkohlhepp — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:34:51 GMT

  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
  <echo message="The value of the first key is ${dict::get-value('MyDict','FirstKey')}"/>

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jkohlhepp — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:32:57 GMT

  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
  <echo message="The value of the first key is ${dict::get-value('MyDict','FirstKey')}"/>

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jkohlhepp — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:26:44 GMT

  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
  <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
  <echo message="The value of the first key is ${dict::get-value('MyDict','FirstKey')}"/>

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jkohlhepp — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:25:51 GMT

What is NAntCollections?
NAntCollections is a library of NAnt tasks and functions which add the ability to use collections (namely lists and dictionaries) within NAnt scripts.

Why?
NAnt and NAntContrib provide an excellent list of features to create very
robust build scripts. However, out of the box there is no way to maintain
a collection of values except by maintaining a delimited list in a property.
This is adequate for simple cases but when it is necessary to maintain large
collections or collections of collections this quickly becomes unwieldy.
The goal of NAntCollections is to bring proper collections to NAnt.

Example
A quick example would be something like this:
{ <dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
<dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
<echo message="The value of the first key is ${dict::get-value('MyDict','FirstKey')}"/>}

Building NAntCollections
NAntCollections is coded against the .NET Framework version 2.0. Currently
NAntCollections is most easily built using Visual Studio 2005. Eventually
build scripts will be created for a more formal build process, and prebuilt
releases will be created at major milestones.

Copyright © 2007 Justin Kohlhepp

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jkohlhepp — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:01:35 GMT

What is NAntCollections?
NAntCollections is a library of NAnt tasks and functions which add the ability to use collections (namely lists and dictionaries) within NAnt scripts.

Why?
NAnt and NAntContrib provide an excellent list of features to create very
robust build scripts. However, out of the box there is no way to maintain
a collection of values except by maintaining a delimited list in a property.
This is adequate for simple cases but when it is necessary to maintain large
collections or collections of collections this quickly becomes unwieldy.
The goal of NAntCollections is to bring proper collections to NAnt.

Example
A quick example would be something like this:
<dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
<dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
<echo message="The value of the first key is ${dict::get-value('MyDict','FirstKey')}"/>

Building NAntCollections
NAntCollections is coded against the .NET Framework version 2.0. Currently
NAntCollections is most easily built using Visual Studio 2005. Eventually
build scripts will be created for a more formal build process, and prebuilt
releases will be created at major milestones.

Copyright © 2007 Justin Kohlhepp

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jkohlhepp — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:53:29 GMT

What is NAntCollections?
A library of NAnt tasks and functions which add collections functionality to NAnt. Supports dictionaries (name/value pairs) and lists.

Example
A quick example would be something like this:
<dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="FirstKey" value="FirstValue"/>
<dict-add dictionary="MyDict" key="SecondKey" value="SecondValue"/>
<echo message="The value of the first key is ${dict::get-value('MyDict','FirstKey')}"/>

Building NAntCollections
NAntCollections is coded against the .NET Framework version 2.0. Currently
NAntCollections is most easily built using Visual Studio 2005. Eventually
build scripts will be created for a more formal build process, and prebuilt
releases will be created at major milestones.

Copyright © 2007 Justin Kohlhepp

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jkohlhepp — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:06:17 GMT

Project Description
A library of NAnt tasks and functions which add collections functionality to NAnt. Supports dictionaries (name/value pairs) and lists.