publish single file doesnt seem to work anymore about winforms HOT 9 OPEN

@Olina-Zhang can your team please test this?

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Tested VS: 17.10.1 and the latest VS build. All cannot repro when did publish operation with targeting .NET 8.0 in VS, it has publish\win-x64 folder

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Strange. I just tried it again, same result:

(clicking the folder link after publishing brings up the 'does not exist' error popup)

Is there something I can send/run that would help figure this one out?

For now I can just use the command line as that seems to work.

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How about other Target runtime: win-x86, or win-arm64? I tried it in Visual Studio to publish, all works, can find these folders. Can you please try to repair your VS to see if issue can be resolved?
Here is my result:

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Just tried it with win-x86, win-arm, linux-x64. Deleted the Release folder every time to make sure it generates a fresh copy. They all produce a windows x64 executable (according to task manager) in the Release folder and no publish folder. It's like it doesn't matter what 'Target Runtime' says. Strange.

Will try to do a repair and post back.

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Did VS repair then rebooted. It signed me back in after rebooting and set it back up. Same issue with the test project. All versions 'compile' as a win-x64 executable in the end regardless of what I target, and does not create a publish folder.

Generated a brand new winforms project the same way, tried to publish and same issue.

Generated a new project targeting .NET 6.0, same issue for that version.

Generated a new project it in a different location without spaces in path in case that might have been it, same issue.

Generated another new project on a different drive with no spaces in path, same issue.

Cleaned out older versions of .NET runtimes aside from the latest (which I have updated) from each major version (I have projects in 6, 7, and 8). Same issue. :(

I'm not sure what else I could try aside from reinstalling Windows entirely which I really don't want to do.

edit: I just remembered. I do have a group policy set to lock Win11 to 23H2. I have a WMR headset and didn't want to lose support for it just yet. Would this somehow interfere?

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