.Net 6/7 PublishSingleFile

[phuocminh6464]

Hi everyone, my WPF app using net 7 and I want to publish app as single EXE file but after publishing I can not open the app. This is command I'm using dotnet publish -c Release -f net7.0-windows -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true and the error details in Events Viewer.

When I open publish folder, the files such as: CefSharp.Core.dll, CefSharp.Core.Runtime.dll, CefSharp.dll, CefSharp.Wpf.dll, etc are not pulished. However, if it remove -p:PublishSingleFile=true from the command, opening app is normal and those files exist in publish folder.

What need I do to fix this issue?

[amaitland]

Publishing as a single file exe is discussed in #3407

.Net 5/6/7 should all behave the same in terms of settings. The publish args I'd recommend are at #3407 (comment)

You will need to SelfHost the BrowserSubprocess, there's more up to date instructions at https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/SelfHost-BrowserSubProcess

[phuocminh6464]

Thanks you so much. I don't know why the command is not working, but if changing to use Publish folder by Right-click on the project in Solution Explorer => select Publish then it can publish as a single file.