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As it looks that you have trimming enabled, you might want to try setting to "partial" in your .csproj file.

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Where did you see trimming enabled, i don't see that in the csproj file ?
Should I add this ?

<PublishTrimmed>true</PublishTrimmed>
    <TrimmerDefaultAction>link</TrimmerDefaultAction>
    <TrimMode>partial</TrimMode>

EDIT: if this what i was supposed to do it didn't worked ):

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Check your publish profile and see if PublishTrimmed is enabled there (according to your video, it seems to be). You might also want to try setting it to false.

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Ok I found the settings but unfortunately it didn't worked I still have this annoying error and the app doesn't start at all.

Exception non gérée à 0x756A8984 (KernelBase.dll) dans App1.exe : 0xE0434352 (paramètres : 0x80131524, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00640000).

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I could reproduce this issue. It started working once I deleted the obj and bin folders once.

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How did you do it because I just deleted bin and obj folders, re-run the publish process and my software still cannot start unfortunately );

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I did the following steps:

-Create the new project
-Add TrimMode=partial, WindowsPackageType=None and WindowsAppSdkSelfContained=true setting to the csproj.
-Open the publish profile for the architecture and change PublishSingleFile to true.
-I also had to change win10-platform to win-platform in the publish profile. Somehow the .net version detection does not seem to work when publishing from visual studio which results in an error
-The app should now publish, but crashes during startup
-Delete the obj and bin folder
-Publish again
-App now starts

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Wait it finally worked thank you !!!!! Tbh I don't know what I have done differently

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Wait it finally worked thank you !!!!! Tbh I don't know what I have done differently

can you share your project files. I'm having the same issue.

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Yes of course it's on my GitHub

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Don't look the code too closely it's bad 😅 (it's my first native windows app ever) but you can just wipe all the code and put your code instead and it should work
https://github.com/Fefedu973/PowerToys-Run-Plugin-Updater

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Don't look the code too closely it's bad 😅 (it's my first native windows app ever) but you can just wipe all the code and put your code instead and it should work https://github.com/Fefedu973/PowerToys-Run-Plugin-Updater

man you are too generous, thank you. let see if it works.

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Does it work ?

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It works!,

It works after adding these

    <WindowsPackageType>None</WindowsPackageType>
    <WindowsAppSDKSelfContained>true</WindowsAppSDKSelfContained>
    <TrimMode>partial</TrimMode>

in <PropertyGroup> in .csproj file and doing the following changes in PublishProfiles.

The majority of changes happens in publish profile where I only wanted to publish x64 version.

publish profile address: YourProject\Properties\PublishProfiles

Working: Project1.xml

Not working: Project2.xml

File 1: Project1.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208121. -->
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <PublishProtocol>FileSystem</PublishProtocol>
    <Platform>x64</Platform>
    <RuntimeIdentifier Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetFrameworkVersion('$(TargetFramework)')) &gt;= 8">win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <RuntimeIdentifier Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetFrameworkVersion('$(TargetFramework)')) &lt; 8">win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <PublishDir>bin\\\win10-x64\publish\</PublishDir>
    <SelfContained>true</SelfContained>
    <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>
    <PublishReadyToRun Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">False</PublishReadyToRun>
    <PublishReadyToRun Condition="'$(Configuration)' != 'Debug'">true</PublishReadyToRun>
    <PublishTrimmed Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">False</PublishTrimmed>
    <PublishTrimmed Condition="'$(Configuration)' != 'Debug'">false</PublishTrimmed>
    <Configuration>Release</Configuration>
    <TargetFramework>net8.0-windows10.0.19041.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

File 2: Project2.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208121. -->
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <PublishProtocol>FileSystem</PublishProtocol>
    <Platform>x64</Platform>
    <RuntimeIdentifier Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetFrameworkVersion('$(TargetFramework)')) &gt;= 8">win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <RuntimeIdentifier Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetFrameworkVersion('$(TargetFramework)')) &lt; 8">win10-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <PublishDir>bin\$(Configuration)\$(TargetFramework)\$(RuntimeIdentifier)\publish\</PublishDir>
    <SelfContained>true</SelfContained>
    <PublishSingleFile>False</PublishSingleFile>
    <PublishReadyToRun Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">False</PublishReadyToRun>
    <PublishReadyToRun Condition="'$(Configuration)' != 'Debug'">True</PublishReadyToRun>
    <PublishTrimmed Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">False</PublishTrimmed>
    <PublishTrimmed Condition="'$(Configuration)' != 'Debug'">True</PublishTrimmed>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Differences between Project1.xml and Project2.xml

1. RuntimeIdentifier Property:

   • Project1.xml: Uses win-x64 regardless of the target framework version.
   • Project2.xml: Uses win-x64 for target framework versions >= 8 and win10-x64 for versions < 8.

2. PublishDir Property:

   • Project1.xml: Uses a hardcoded path bin\\\win10-x64\publish\.
   • Project2.xml: Uses a dynamic path bin\$(Configuration)\$(TargetFramework)\$(RuntimeIdentifier)\publish\.

3. PublishSingleFile Property:

   • Project1.xml: Set to true.
   • Project2.xml: Set to False.

4. PublishTrimmed Property:

   • Project1.xml: Set to False in both Debug and non-Debug configurations.
   • Project2.xml: Set to False in Debug and True in non-Debug configurations.

5. Configuration Property:

   • Project1.xml: Explicitly set to Release.
   • Project2.xml: Not explicitly set (it relies on the build configuration being used).

The generated exe file in \bin\win10-x64\publish works in my Computer but I'm not sure that it will work in other Computers,
Will it work ?
Thanks!

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