Unnessary folders after pulish in windows

Question

Hi,

Which folder are no need after publish :

dotnet publish -f net8.0-windows10.0.19041.0 -c Release -p:WindowsPackageType=None -p:WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=true /p:PackageCertificateThumbprint="c01ba45666762f3615cf6813aeb4dc4b1919541d" -p:RuntimeIdentifierOverride=win10-x64

I do not support muti-languages.

I added all folders.

Answer 1

Hello,

If you want to get rid of these languages folders when publish your application. Please set the -p:WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=false.

Before running published application, you need to install Latest downloads for the Windows App SDK - Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

When your application is self contained(WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=true), what actually happens is that Visual Studio copies the contents of the Windows App SDK framework package to your application directory. This is the file named Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.x.msix. So, you can't really stop the creation of the language directories.

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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