Create new web app offline c# using Visual Studio

Question

I notice (beginner) that when I generate a new .net web app in Visual Studio, it collects required packages from the web. I believe I need to connected to the web in order to create an app. Is there an offline mode where it stores the files needed?

Answer 1

When you create a new project, Visual studio will download the require NuGet packages (=dependencies) from the internet.

Technically you can add a local NuGet repository (=on your hard drive) but do you really want to do that?!

I found this article describing how to achieve that src