Silverlight hosting?

[nippynoo]

I'm using VS2010 to generate ASP using Silverlight/C# and am looking for some free web-hosting... I dont wanna pay at this stage because I;m just playing. (Its for uni)

Anyone know of any free host sites?

 

[Adz]

You're unlikely to find much/any free Windows hosting due to the licensing costs Microsoft impose for service providers - we're not allowed to just buy copies of Windows, SQL server, etc, we have to pay a monthly charge per CPU.

You really should have developed the application in PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Python or Java .

Doesn't the university have a server with a fast internet connection for this purpose?

 

[Moredhel]

If you're just playing, build a small home server, whack on the trial of 2008 r2, install IIS / .NET and do your playing locally.

Hell you could even dual boot.

 

[dave-lew99]

If you're just playing, build a small home server, whack on the trial of 2008 r2, install IIS / .NET and do your playing locally.

Hell you could even dual boot.

This.

As a student you should qualify for MSDNAA or Dreamspark (and others) so you can get the full version of windows server/VS etc.

Just stick in VMs, or as suggested, dual boot.

 

[HumbleCoder]

If you want it on the net then look at winhost who charge about $5 (~£3.50) a month via paypal and are quite reliable. I know you said free but £3.50 a month is like what a pint and a half a month you'd have to go without.

 

[nippynoo]

Thanks for the comments guys. I've done some reading and found that Silverlight/C# can be hosted on any web server, even Apache. I just need to put the html and 'xap' file on the server. Has anyone done this using Silverlight? Any problems?

Ps: I'm playing with building a RIA (sort of game) on the client, and need to use 'compiled' code for speed purposes. I want to build a 3D flight simulator within the browser. I thought that Silverlight or Java were my only options..