--- title: Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears description: A walkthrough of building a simple ASP.NET MVC notebook application and then adding offline capabilities using Google Gears, a now-defunct browser plugin that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-an-asp-net-mvc-application-with-google-gears-byanmsdop twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building a simple ASP.NET MVC notebook application and then adding offline capabilities using Google Gears, a now-defunct browser plugin that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-an-asp-net-mvc-application-with-google-gears-byanmsdop og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ByAnmSDop.png og:image:alt: Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building a simple ASP.NET MVC notebook application and then adding offline capabilities using Google Gears, a now-defunct browser plugin that provided local SQLite storage, a local server cache, geolocation, and background JavaScript workers. Two approaches are explored: a read-only offline mode that caches rendered pages via Gears' LocalServer with an auto-generated manifest.json, and a synchronized offline mode using Gears' local database with JSON-based syncing (left unimplemented due to time constraints). Source code downloads are provided for the MVC-only app and the read-only offline version. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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