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PresentationFramework not found in SelfContainedDeployments

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From @rido-min on November 8, 2018 22:29

PresentationFramework not found in SelfContainedDeployments

1 - Create WPF app dotnet new wpf 2 - Create a Publishing Profile with Self Contained and a RID:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <PublishProtocol>FileSystem</PublishProtocol>
    <Configuration>Release</Configuration>
    <Platform>Any CPU</Platform>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TargetFramework>
    <PublishDir>bin\Release\netcoreapp3.0\publishSCD\</PublishDir>
    <RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <SelfContained>true</SelfContained>
    <_IsPortable>false</_IsPortable>
  </PropertyGroup>

After publish, the output exe does nothing, but running dotnet myapp.dll returns

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationFramework, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'. The system cannot find the file specified.

I also reviewed the folder, and PresentationFramework.dll is not there.

I’m running:

NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   3.0.100-preview-009736
 Commit:    d273cdc5af

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.17763
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.0.100-preview-009736\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 3.0.0-preview1-27031-02
  Commit:  16fc8e9125

Copied from original issue: dotnet/core#2044