Publish app not rendering images.

Description

Published app doesn’t render any images.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create new MAUI Project Visual studio creates one templated project with “Hello world text” + one image(dotnet_bot.svg) in center of window.
2. Publish app using command open cmd > set path to project directory (cd <project-directory-path>) Run following command dotnet publish -f net7.0-windows10.0.19041.0 -c Release -p:WindowsPackageType=None -p:SelfContained=true -p:WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=true
3. Open <project-directory-path>/bin/release/publish/YourProjectName.exe Observe image(dotnet_bot.svg) is not rendering in UI anywhere.

Link to public reproduction project repository

NA

Version with bug

6.0.486 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Windows

Affected platform versions

Windows

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[Captnwalker1]

My workaround, a powershell script that runs via a afterPublish target:

#fixMauiPublishImages.ps1
param
(
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$StagingDir,	
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$OutputDir
)

#if maui ever fixes this issue, remove this script https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/10526

$OutputPath = "$OutputDir\Your.Project.Name"

#Copy only the files we want, but preserving directory structure
Write-Host "Copying file(s)..."
robocopy $StagingDir $OutputDir *.png *.ico *.html *.svg *.sql *.ttf *.otf /s /nfl /ndl

Write-Host "Done."

After Publish Target in csproj:

...
	<Target Name="CustomAfterPublish" AfterTargets="Publish;AfterPublish">
		<Exec Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetPlatformIdentifier('$(TargetFramework)')) == 'windows'" Command="powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -NonInteractive -File &quot;$(ProjectDir)..\FixMauiPublishImages.ps1&quot; $(OutputPath) $(PublishDir)" />
	</Target>
...

[Captnwalker1]

Also if you change your commandName in launchSettings.json from MSIXPackage to Project, the same happens. No images are in the bin directory.