[5.0.101] Published single file binary crashes on startup with 0x80070002 in EnableVisualStyles()

• .NET Core Version:

5.0.101

• Have you experienced this same bug with .NET Framework?:

No

Problem description:

Publishing a single file binary produces a binary that just crashes on startup when launched from explorer. Launching cmd and then starting the exe from there, actually runs.

Not publishing for single file also works correctly.

This worked on 5.0.0 release.

System.IO.FileNotFoundException

The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002)

Expected behavior: App works

Minimal repro:

1. Clone https://github.com/SteamDatabase/ValveResourceFormat
2. cd GUI && dotnet publish

We have builds on appveyor as well (GUI.zip) that are broken: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/xPaw/valveresourceformat/builds/36727211/artifacts

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I created this issue in winforms because I suspect https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/pull/4177 could be the culprit. If not, could this be moved to runtime repo please.

[xPaw]

Setting the IncludeAllContentForSelfExtract property to true in your project should work around this issue. Can you try this please?

Appears to have helped, although it is slower because it has to extract into temp (afaik).

[xPaw]

you can get the manifest to work and not use IncludeAllContentForSelfExtract?

Correct. https://github.com/SteamDatabase/ValveResourceFormat/commit/a7d07725cc23b9b47bd2302cfcbdc2411dc5a0a0