maintenance message

Hello,
What is the easiest way to give a system maintenance message to users who
try to run an asp.net application. I do not have separate development and
runtime environment, I just need to figure out a way to return a message back
to user while I am changing application.
Thanks,
Jim.Hi Jim,

You could send them a custom error message as outlined here:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;308132

If you know the exact error status code they are likely to get, you can
redirect it in the web.config

<customErrors
defaultRedirect="http://hostName/applicationName/errorStatus.htm" mode="On">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="filenotfound.htm" />
</customErrors
"JIM.H." <JIMH@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> What is the easiest way to give a system maintenance message to users who
> try to run an asp.net application. I do not have separate development and
> runtime environment, I just need to figure out a way to return a message
> back
> to user while I am changing application.
> Thanks,
> Jim.