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What is the correct way to take a ASP.NET web application offline?
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You can temporarily stop your site in IIS.<br />
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Is it necessary to take a web application offline to update dlls, etc.?
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You can probably take it offline temporary while you updating the dlls or if there's a feature within your web application to show and switch your site to &quot;under maintenance&quot;, that could be useful too.
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> What is the correct way to take a ASP.NET web application offline?

You can temporarily stop your site in IIS.



> Is it necessary to take a web application offline to update dlls, etc.?

You can probably take it offline temporary while you updating the dlls or if there's a feature within your web application to show and switch your site to "under maintenance", that could be useful too.

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RayT

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What is the correct way to take a ASP.NET web application offline?  Is it necessary to take a web application offline to update dlls, etc.?

Taking a ASP.NET Web App Offiline

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications