title: Custom app_offline.htm file during publish
body: <p>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 publish is successful.</p>
  
  <p>This is cool and I really like the idea, but I want to create my own custom app_offline.htm file that the publish action is aware of and put it somewhere where it doesn't effect my development site - i.e. it doesn't sit in the root of my development site rendering it offline all the time.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: From the comments on <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/06/426755.aspx#1087435" rel="noreferrer">Scott Gu's post about app_offline.htm</a>, it seems that customization of the app_offline.htm file wasn't possible with VS 2005 - has this changed with VS 2008 and now VS 2010?</p>