To make the offline stuff work, just disconnected isn't good enough -- you actually have to set Work Offline in the IE File menu.
Chris Sells http://www.sellsbrothers.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Moderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Duffy > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Smart clients and offline usage > > I am unable to find any good, thorough documentation on the implementation > of smart clients (in particular, those that are offline capable). Does > anybody out there have internet or book references that may be helpful in > this area? > > Specifically, I am able to remotely load assemblies > (Assembly.LoadFrom(...)), but I was under the assumption that downloaded > assemblies would be cached for future offline uses. When I attempt to run > the application again after terminating my network connection, however, it > does not pick up the cached version. Is there a separate invocation that > will load an assembly from cache, after which (if it fails) I can load it > from the remote location? Am I limited to manually doing this? If so, I'm > not sure that my technique that I have in mind is very efficient -- > especially over a low bandwidth connection (copying the DLL locally, > catching "FileNotFoundException" thrown by Assembly.LoadFrom(...) to signify > lack of a network connection, and loading it from the local copy if > unavailable). > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > joe > > You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced > DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
