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I have made a C# WPF application, and if I compile it it creates a dll instead of an exe.
I selected the projects property output type to windows application. I can choose console app, but then you get a dos window to open as well alongside the program, and i dont want that.
How do you run the dll anyways? If I type rundll32 filename then it doesnt start...
DOS is not supported by current versions of Windows, you must have a very old version of Windows.
Are you sure that you selected the right Project type ?
WPF .NET Framework :
There is project type WPF Application
and there is project type WPF App(.Net framework)
I chose the second one, so yes, I chose the right one. it had Target framework .NET 6.0, and the first option you had to select an older framework version (up till 4.8)
.NET 6 is not .NET Framework, it is .NET Core :
(but it produces a .EXE (and a .DLL))
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Net 6 added support for WPF, so you can now. Build WPF applications with net 6.
Net 6 applications are a dll hosted by net core runtime. dotnet(.exe) is the default. The build will typically create a small exe named after the project that will load and run the dll. With publish you can create a single bundle file that will run.
See single file deployment
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/single-file/overview