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Publishing a Self-Contained App

Publishing a Self-Contained App

Learn about the steps to publish a self-contained .NET application, including building and publishing for different operating systems.

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Steps to publish a self-contained app

We have seen some example dotnet tool commands. We can publish our cross-platform console app:

Step 1: At the command line, ensure we are in the DotNetEverywhere folder.

Step 2: Enter a command to build and publish the self-contained release version of the console application for Windows 10, as shown in the following command:

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dotnet publish -c Release -r win10-x64 --self-contained

Step 3: Note that the build engine restores any needed packages, compiles the project source code into an assembly DLL, and creates a publish folder, as shown in the following output:

MSBuild version 17.7.1+971bf70db for .NET
  Determining projects to restore...
  All projects are up-to-date for restore.
  DotNetEverywhere -> /usercode/DotNetEverywhere/bin/Release/net7.0/win10-x64/DotNetEverywhere.dll
  DotNetEverywhere -> /usercode/DotNetEverywhere/bin/Release/net7.0/win10-x64/publish/

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