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Is It Really Necessary for Visual Studio to Generate More Than One File for a C# Console Application? This is New! Improved! And comes along with .Net 5

Is It Really Necessary for Visual Studio to Generate More Than One File for a C# Console Application? This is New! Improved! And comes along with .Net 5

I prefer one .EXE file. Not five or six files including a .exe a .dll and several .json. I wonder if there is way to get the entire application in one .exe like in the old days.

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The end user interface of Visual Studio has changed from what you provide in the exhibits of your answer. But I discovered through research (poke and hope, trial and error) the changes that the developers made and I adapted myself to the product. In the end I created an .EXE file of old without a .PDB. Just a standalone .EXE. So: There is a way. The end user interface is clumsy. But it works. I would prefer not to be required to add lines to an XML file. Visual Studio could accept a configuration option in the Project that says: I want the standalone .EXE file and I don't want to have to Publish. It's okay to produce dozens of files for debug. But not for production. I gather Microsoft policymakers decided Visual Studio needs to produce applications that run on PCs and on every other device to exclude mainframes. Your answer is good. But it needs to be revised to match the Visual Studio flight that was delivered to me. Thank you.

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It seems that there is no way to generate only a single file when debugging, but we can do it when publishing.

To facilitate the demonstration, I deployed it to a local folder.

Right-click the project, then select the publish option, select folder next->folder next-> finish, and then you will see this page:

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Click Edit, and then set according to the following figure, the result will only have one .exe file and one .pdb file.

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If you are using .Net 3.x, then this is enough, but if it is .Net 5, you also need to open the project path and add a line to the project.csproj file:
<IncludeAllContentForSelfExtract>true</IncludeAllContentForSelfExtract>

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If you only want an exe file, you can also add <DebugType>embedded</DebugType> to this file.


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