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I recently migrated a WPF project from .NET 4.8 to .NET 6 in Visual Studio. After the migration, I noticed that during the build process, a runtimes folder is being created in the output directory, containing platform-dependent DLLs. However, my application is intended to run only on Windows machines, and I don't need these extra folders.

I would like to know if there is a way to prevent the runtimes folder from being generated during the build process in Visual Studio for a .NET 6 WPF project. My goal is to keep the output directory clean and avoid unnecessary platform-specific DLLs.

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Management;
using System.Windows.Forms;

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    // using System.IO.Ports;
    string stopBitsStr = "";
    string parityStr = "";
    StopBits stopBits = (StopBits)Enum.Parse(typeof(StopBits), stopBitsStr);
    Parity parity = (Parity)Enum.Parse(typeof(Parity), parityStr);

    // using System.Management;
    ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM ");

    // using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
    string decryptedJsonData = "";
    var parsedObject = JObject.Parse(decryptedJsonData);
}

.Net 6.0 project debug folder with folder called 'runtimes' created

I have tried adding

<DisableTrimAnalyzers>true</DisableTrimAnalyzers>

in the project file, but it didn't prevent the runtimes folder from being created.

Desired outcome: I want to find a way to stop the runtimes folder from being generated in the output directory during the build process of my .NET 6 WPF project in Visual Studio. My application is Windows-only, and I don't need platform-specific DLLs, so I want to keep the output directory clean and focused on the necessary files only.

Any suggestions or guidance on achieving this goal would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

marc_s
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    Does this answer your question? ['runtimes' Folder after Publishing a .Net Core App to Azure Publish Via VS Online](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41755276/runtimes-folder-after-publishing-a-net-core-app-to-azure-publish-via-vs-onlin) – Tu deschizi eu inchid Jul 29 '23 at 04:07

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Right-click on your WPF project in Visual Studio, and select "Edit Project File" from the context menu.

Locate the section in the project file.

Add the <PublishTrimmed>true</PublishTrimmed> and <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile> elements within the <PropertyGroup>. Set both values to true to enable trimming and create a single-file executable

`<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <!-- Other project settings -->

    <!-- Add these lines to disable runtime-specific output -->
    <PublishTrimmed>true</PublishTrimmed>
    <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>`

try this way

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