Custom app_offline.htm file during publish

Question

When I publish my ASP.NET MVC application it generates a app_offline.htm file to take the site offline while it updates the website and then deletes the file once the publis

Answer 1

Back in 2006, Scott Gu said that there was no way to customize the file which VS generates on Publish.

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I'd be interested in solving this too, but I was unable to turn up anything definitive to the contrary on Google.