Maui - publish as exe and create exe with icon

Question

Hi,

I publish my MAUI app as follow and create executable file

dotnet publish -f net6.0-windows10.0.19041.0 -c Release -p:WindowsPackageType=None -p:WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=true /p:PackageCertificateThumbprint="c01ba45666762f3615cf6813aeb4dc4b1919541d"

How can create the executable with icon programmatically ?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Hello,

We cannot add the icon in command line.

However, before running dotnet publish command line, you can put icon in the Resources\AppIcon\ folder，then double click your project name in VS, open the yourproject.csproj file, you can find the MauiIcon and change the icon path.

        <!-- App Icon, my test icon name is icon1.png-->
        <MauiIcon Include="Resources\AppIcon\icon1.png" />

Here is detailed document about:Change MAUI the icon

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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