Found this morning in my daily RSS reading a post in the ASP.NET Daily Articles that shows how to bring an application down for maintenance or upgrade without even getting to open IIS and stop the service.
It seems that ASP.NET supports a feature for routing requests to a special singleton file (called app_offline.htm), making the rest of the application unavailable for serving those requests. Allowing webmasters to work behind the scenes on the maintenance of the site or application (just make sure u set enabled=true in the httpRuntime tag)
I know that for most of us this feature will come handy during those days of build release and critical fixes.
For more information here is a list of related posts:
- Scott Guthrie on App_Offline.htm and working around the "IE Friendly Errors" feature
- John Peterson on Taking an ASP.NET 2.0 Application Offline
- msdn on Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application Using XCOPY
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