VS2026 not include System.Drawing.Common.dll

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Description

With Visual Studio 2022 I had no problems at all — I could load Icon, Bitmap, and the rest without any issues, just by having the System.Drawing.Common NuGet package.

Yesterday I upgraded to Visual Studio 2026… and what a mess. Now it warns me that the library won’t be removed, but that I should consider removing it…

So, if I remove it and make some changes, debugging works fine; but the moment I make a PORTABLE (self-contained) publish, that’s when the party starts. Since it doesn’t copy the System.Drawing.Common.dll library into the final output assemblies, the application blows up everywhere. It can’t find the library — which makes sense, because it doesn’t exist since I was “forced” to remove it — but it’s obvious that some internal .NET 10 crap still needs it.

In short, if I include it as a NuGet package, when publishing or building, it NEVER copies it to the output folder, so I can’t create a portable application.

What a disaster of an update from Microsoft… it’s always the same, you have to wait at least 4 or 5 months until the new VS becomes stable… pathetic.

Reproduction Steps

Add the System.Drawing.Common package, publish the project as portable (self-contained), and voilà — there’s no System.Drawing.Common.dll anywhere.

Expected behavior

If the System.Drawing.Common package is added… when publishing as self-contained, it should include the library!

Actual behavior

Add the System.Drawing.Common package, publish the project as portable (self-contained), and voilà — there’s no System.Drawing.Common.dll anywhere.

Regression?

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Known Workarounds

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Impact

Critical

Configuration

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Other information

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