For artifact dependency resolving, I’d say Nuget is now the preferred alternative.
It supports and promotes build time resolution, i.e. no need to check in binary dependency artifacts into vcs. See these articles.
From version 2.7 of Nuget, build time resolution has even better support with the command Nuget restore being one of the options.
Update:
There is now an alternative, nuget compatible package manager available – Paket that is better than the vanilla nuget client at handling transient dependencies and harmonising dependencies between projects in the same solution. The tooling seems to be pretty mature as well (VS integration and command line tooling for CI)