output path ignored with .net 5 C# classes lib

Question

Hello,

I updated a .net framwework project (a library of windows forms controls in C#) to .net 5. Eveything seems ok except that the ouput path of the buid, specified in the project properties, is ignored. For instance, for the Debug config the ouput path is always 'bin\Debug\net5.0-windows' and 'bin\Release\net5.0-windows' for the Release config. I don't want vs2019ce (version 16.8.3) add/create the folder 'net5.0-windows'.

Is this a bug?

regards

Answer 1

Hi,
thank you Oleg, after inserting the lines you mentioned in the csproj file, this works as i want. Without specifying an output path, the defaults outputs are \bin\Debug and [bin\Release for respectively the Debug and Release configurations, which suits to me.

Regards
Pascal

Answer 2

@Pasc059 If you use the new .csproj format (and most probably you do so) just add these lines into the project file:

<PropertyGroup>  
  <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>  
  <AppendRuntimeIdentifierToOutputPath>false</AppendRuntimeIdentifierToOutputPath>  
</PropertyGroup>  

See more details here (in the Note section).