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C# .net Offline page?

So I have here a .NET C# web app that needs one page able to be viewed offline as a user could be off in the middle of 'whoop whoop' with no internet.

The order of events are:

  1. User visits a form online
  2. Store the webpage using HTML5 so they can visit it later offline
  3. When online - the user then can submit the form to the database

I've been looking over HTML5 appcache however it seems to only reference physical .html or .php pages rather than storing pages which have been generated by 'Razor' .cshtml Views.
e.g. domain.com/path/view.
I haven't been able to find any relevant documentation for my problem either.

So is it possible to cache a .NET webapp ofline?

Solution

  • Although I have not tried it, and assuming your app uses ASP.NET MVC, this might help you: Build an HTML5 Offline Application with Application Cache, Web Storage and ASP.NET MVC

    It uses HTML5 Offline Web Application API (or HTML Application Cache). Note the comment on browser support.

    The linked article shows a sample application, but I could not see a link to a downloadable source code. But one commenter appears to have recreated the project.