Hello,

I am trying to make an application available offline. Its a ASP.net application that uses XML web services (vb.net). I want part this application to be accessible from a laptop(without network connection). No data updates will be done when offline.

My plan was to save the data in XML files in the client PC. But, they might not be a secure way of doing it...and how do I create a XML file that's accessible by client.

Thanks,
Shiva

Can you explain a bit further on this? Is the ASP.NET application running on the laptop? Where are the web services that you are accessing?

If you write your application to detected a timeout condition on the web service, then it could function "off line". When you retrieve data from the web service, just save it locally so you can refer to it if the web service is unreachable.