Acrylic doesn't work for published apps

Describe the bug Acrylic doesn’t work when the app has been published, it only works when debugging.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new Avalonia MVVM project
2. Set XAML to:

<Window ...
        TransparencyLevelHint="AcrylicBlur"
        Background="Transparent">

    <Panel>
        <ExperimentalAcrylicBorder  IsHitTestVisible="False">
            <ExperimentalAcrylicBorder.Material>
                <ExperimentalAcrylicMaterial TintColor="Black"
                                             TintOpacity="0.5"
                                             MaterialOpacity="0.65"
                                             BackgroundSource="Digger"/>
            </ExperimentalAcrylicBorder.Material>
        </ExperimentalAcrylicBorder>
    </Panel>
</Window>

Expected behavior Acrylic should work for both debug AND published application.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Version: 21H2
• OS build: 22000.778

[PerfectlyFineCode]

@PerfectlyFineCode acrylic in your build works for me, but I see that winui composition wasn’t enabled. Even though I decompiled it and saw WinUIComposition=true in your code, it wasn’t applied in runtime. Acrylic without winui composition is very buggy and might not work on every OS.

I wonder if some native dependencies are missed depending on a way how you build it. You might need to try to build it with runtime identifier win7-x64 instead of win-x64.

I apologize for a late answer, I just checked now and it is exactly that issue. Works fine now for me when I compiled it as win7-x64 using CLI instead of VS’s GUI.

[maxkatz6]

Might be a duplicate of https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/6028 then