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Is it possible to alter dotnet publish structure?

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I’m publishing self-contained netcoreapp2.0. The resulting structure is a huge mess, as it includes over 150 different dll libraries, and in addition to that over 70 folders for resx resources related to localization in my case. I’m wondering if it’s possible through any current means to alter this structure, by moving all localization folders such as de-DE to resources folder or similar, and all dll libraries to lib folder or likewise. This would lead to a single Application.exe binary, resources folder and lib folder, making entire thing look much better.

If it’s currently not possible, perhaps it’d be a worth addition to the SDK?

Thank you in advance for response.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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bugproofcommented, Jan 7, 2020

FYI dnSpy does this by patching AppHost exe:

All the .dll files are inside bin and main .exe to launch it is outside. It looks very clean IMO.

https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy/blob/5c810b6243f9aab34436f631f85dd362dc486998/build.ps1#L58

https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy/tree/master/Build/AppHostPatcher

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Vercidiumcommented, Jul 18, 2021

Bumping this issue, I’d love to be able to move the large list of DLLs to a folder called lib/ and specify in my deps.json to look in there when searching for DLLs.

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