Hello, I've got the question... Are there any free build servers for .NET applications? We are starting project as remotely working team and right now we are searching for such solution. As far as it's an academic project we do not have funds to buy server and run CC.net on it.. Are there any charge free solutions? Or at least cheap ones...
I'm asking rather about the service on the internet, not software solution ;)
Try rackspacecloud.com cloud server. They are cheap and good.
We have had good results with the following: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/index.jsp
It is not an online solution, where you don't need an extra PC though.
Hudson is an continous integration build server. It´s written in java, but it is also compiles and builds .NET projects. As far as i know is it open source.
If you open source your project, you could try to get it on teamcity.codebetter.com.
This is a TeamCity enterprise edition sponsored by JetBrains, for use by open source projects.
You can read more about it here, including details how to apply your project.
Another idea: do you really need your build server on the internet?
How about putting only your code repository on the internet (Github, Bitbucket, Google Code...)?
One of your project members could set up the build server at home. As long as it's online 24/7, it can pull the repository from the internet, make the build locally and upload the results via FTP to some webspace where you all can access it.
Of course that's not as comfortable as a "real" internet based solution, but cheap.