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Problem

How to use the dotnet publish command: Publish a .NET application and its dependencies to a directory for deployment to a hosting system. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-publish>.

Solution

dotnet publish — Publish a .NET application and its dependencies to a directory for deployment to a hosting system. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-publish>.

Compile a .NET project in release mode:

dotnet publish {{[-c|--configuration]}} Release {{path/to/project_file}}

Publish the .NET Core runtime with your application for the specified runtime:

dotnet publish {{[-sc|--self-contained]}} true {{[-r|--runtime]}} {{runtime_identifier}} {{path/to/project_file}}

Package the application into a platform-specific single-file executable:

dotnet publish {{[-r|--runtime]}} {{runtime_identifier}} -p:PublishSingleFile=true {{path/to/project_file}}

Trim unused libraries to reduce the deployment size of an application:

dotnet publish {{[-sc|--self-contained]}} true {{[-r|--runtime]}} {{runtime_identifier}} -p:PublishTrimmed=true {{path/to/project_file}}

Compile a .NET project without restoring dependencies:

dotnet publish --no-restore {{path/to/project_file}}

Specify the output directory:

dotnet publish {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/directory}} {{path/to/project_file}}

Code Snippets

Compile a .NET project in release mode

dotnet publish {{[-c|--configuration]}} Release {{path/to/project_file}}

Publish the .NET Core runtime with your application for the specified runtime

dotnet publish {{[-sc|--self-contained]}} true {{[-r|--runtime]}} {{runtime_identifier}} {{path/to/project_file}}

Package the application into a platform-specific single-file executable

dotnet publish {{[-r|--runtime]}} {{runtime_identifier}} -p:PublishSingleFile=true {{path/to/project_file}}

Trim unused libraries to reduce the deployment size of an application

dotnet publish {{[-sc|--self-contained]}} true {{[-r|--runtime]}} {{runtime_identifier}} -p:PublishTrimmed=true {{path/to/project_file}}

Compile a .NET project without restoring dependencies

dotnet publish --no-restore {{path/to/project_file}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/dotnet publish

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