Hello Victor,
As for the App_Offline.htm page, it is a new feature of ASP.NET 2.0
runtime, if there exists such a file in the ASP.NET application root
folder, the runtime will stop processing any commming ASP.NET requests but
return the content of the app_offline.htm.
Based on my research, the default app_offline.htm file used by Visual
Studio 2005(when we copy or publish website) is an auto-generated one and
we haven't any good means to customize/override it. If you want to provide
a customized version of the app_offline.htm file, you can create a
"app_offline.htm" file youself and manually put it into the web
application's directory(you can override the default one after it is
generated).
Here is a blog article from scottgu which has also mentioned this:
#App_Offline.htm and working around the "IE Friendly Errors" feature
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/09/442332.aspx
There is any other information you wonder, please feel free to let me know.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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