dotnet publish -p:PublishSingleFile fails with Unhandled exception on .net 7 it works on .net 6

Describe the bug

When running dotnet publish with a msbuild property without an equal sign ‘=’ like this dotnet publish -c Release -p:PublishSingleFile the command fails hard with an System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. The same thing can be observed by running dotnet publish -c Release -p:WhatEver

The same command works without the unhandled exception in .net 6. (v6.0.406) - works as in, it does not fail hard 😄

To Reproduce

With .net 7 run the following command

dotnet publish -c Release -p:PublishSingleFile

Exceptions (if any)

Unhandled exception: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.

Unhandled exception: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.ReleasePropertyProjectLocator.GetGlobalPropertiesFromUserArgs(ParseResult parseResult)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.ReleasePropertyProjectLocator.GetCustomDefaultConfigurationValueIfSpecified(ParseResult parseResult, String defaultedConfigurationProperty, IEnumerable`1 slnOrProjectArgs, Option`1 configOption)+MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.InsertRange(Int32 index, IEnumerable`1 collection)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Publish.PublishCommand.FromParseResult(ParseResult parseResult, String msbuildPath)
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Publish.PublishCommand.Run(ParseResult parseResult)
   at System.CommandLine.Invocation.InvocationPipeline.<>c__DisplayClass4_0.<<BuildInvocationChain>b__0>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Parser.<>c__DisplayClass17_0.<<UseParseErrorReporting>b__0>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at System.CommandLine.CommandLineBuilderExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass11_0.<<UseHelp>b__0>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at System.CommandLine.CommandLineBuilderExtensions.<>c.<<UseSuggestDirective>b__17_0>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at System.CommandLine.CommandLineBuilderExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass15_0.<<UseParseDirective>b__0>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at System.CommandLine.CommandLineBuilderExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass7_0.<<UseExceptionHandler>b__0>d.MoveNext()

Further technical details

.NET SDK: Version: 7.0.200 Commit: 534117727b

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.22621 OS Platform: Windows RID: win10-x64

Host: Version: 7.0.3 Architecture: x64 Commit: 0a2bda10e8

.NET SDKs installed: 6.0.406 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 7.0.102 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 7.0.103 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 7.0.200 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

[niklasfp]

Thx @nagilson

[nagilson]

Closed as this is going into servicing for 7.0.2xx, it will likely release with this fix in April.