Maui - publish as exe and create exe with icon

Question

Maui - publish as exe and create exe with icon

Dani_S 4,501

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,

Accepted answer

0 additional answers

Your answer

Answer 1

Anonymous

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

If the answer is the right solution, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".

Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Anonymous

2023-04-03T09:21:55.2533333+00:00
I'm preparing an icon using maui icons(two parts, background and foreground) and color of foreground icon.

Yes, you can do this by following code.

<MauiIcon Include="Resources\AppIcon\appicon.svg" ForegroundFile="Resources\AppIcon\appiconfg.svg" Color="#ffffff" />

Dani_S 4,501

I tried to publish exe with custom icon and get blank shortcut.

	<!-- App Icon -->
		<!--<MauiIcon Include="Resources\appicon.svg" ForegroundFile="Resources\appiconfg.svg" Color="#512BD4" />-->
		<MauiIcon Include="Resources\app_icon_background.svg" ForegroundFile="Resources\app_icon_forground.svg" Color="#512BD4" />
		
		<!-- Splash Screen -->
		<!--<MauiSplashScreen Include="Resources\appiconfg.svg" Color="#512BD4" BaseSize="128,128" />-->
		<MauiSplashScreen Include="Resources\app_icon_forground.svg" Color="#512BD4" BaseSize="128,128" />

Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-03T11:47:47.1933333+00:00

Why is not working!!!?
Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-03T12:21:31.9+00:00

why is not working ? what do i miss ?
Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-03T13:32:33.7233333+00:00

The svg were corrupted.

Thanks.

Dani_S 4,501

When i try to update the icon is not change . Please see the real shortcut image is inside the shortcut and out side is the old one.

<!-- App Icon -->
		<MauiIcon Include="Resources\AppIcon\appicon.svg" ForegroundFile="Resources\AppIcon\appiconfg.svg" />
			
		<!-- Splash Screen -->
		<MauiSplashScreen Include="Resources\AppIcon\appiconfg.svg"  BaseSize="128,128"/>

User's image

Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-04T07:31:27.1633333+00:00

Can you please help?
Anonymous

2023-04-04T07:54:42.2533333+00:00

Before you update icon, did you uninstall your application and re-install it?
Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-04T08:30:51.41+00:00

It works now. When you create shortcut from release folder you do not see the image bit if i copied it outside the project it works. Thanks,
Anonymous

2023-04-04T09:27:38.62+00:00

Great, thanks for your update.
Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-30T10:26:31.3133333+00:00

Why when I copy the release folder to window server 2019 volume C and create shortcut it not show

the icon but when I put release folder on desktop and create shortcut is working.

In window 10 it works in both cases.

Any solution ?
Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-30T10:36:21.6266667+00:00

When I change the icon manually it changed.
Dani_S 4,501 Reputation points

2023-04-30T10:44:16.7366667+00:00

When I pin to task bar it works but not as shortcut

Share via

Maui - publish as exe and create exe with icon

0 additional answers

Your answer