Publishing as framework dependent creates self-contained instead when not explicitly disabled

[Symbai]

Issue:

Publishing as explicit framework dependent is always published as self-contained instead. Unless the user explicitly sets --self-contained false flag.

Repro:

1.

Create a console app then:

2.

Either CLI:

Following the docs on how to publish a framework dependent app: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/deploy-with-cli and publish with dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release for .NET Core 3 apps

or VS:

Right click on project in VS => publish => new profile and make sure it looks like this and double check it says "framework dependent":

3.

After publish visit output directory, notice >220 files in it.

api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
clrcompression.dll
clretwrc.dll
clrjit.dll
ConsoleApp1.deps.json
ConsoleApp1.dll
ConsoleApp1.exe
ConsoleApp1.pdb
ConsoleApp1.runtimeconfig.json
coreclr.dll
dbgshim.dll
hostfxr.dll
hostpolicy.dll
Microsoft.CSharp.dll
Microsoft.DiaSymReader.Native.amd64.dll
Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll
Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
Microsoft.Win32.Primitives.dll
Microsoft.Win32.Registry.dll
mscordaccore.dll
mscordaccore_amd64_amd64_4.700.19.60701.dll
mscordbi.dll
mscorlib.dll
mscorrc.debug.dll
mscorrc.dll
netstandard.dll
SOS_README.md
System.AppContext.dll
System.Buffers.dll
System.Collections.Concurrent.dll
System.Collections.dll
System.Collections.Immutable.dll
System.Collections.NonGeneric.dll
System.Collections.Specialized.dll
System.ComponentModel.Annotations.dll
System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll
System.ComponentModel.dll
System.ComponentModel.EventBasedAsync.dll
System.ComponentModel.Primitives.dll
System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter.dll
System.Configuration.dll
System.Console.dll
System.Core.dll
System.Data.Common.dll
System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll
System.Data.dll
System.Diagnostics.Contracts.dll
System.Diagnostics.Debug.dll
System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource.dll
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.dll
System.Diagnostics.Process.dll
System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.dll
System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener.dll
System.Diagnostics.Tools.dll
System.Diagnostics.TraceSource.dll
System.Diagnostics.Tracing.dll
System.dll
System.Drawing.dll
System.Drawing.Primitives.dll
System.Dynamic.Runtime.dll
System.Globalization.Calendars.dll
System.Globalization.dll
System.Globalization.Extensions.dll
System.IO.Compression.Brotli.dll
System.IO.Compression.dll
System.IO.Compression.FileSystem.dll
System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.dll
System.IO.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.DriveInfo.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.Primitives.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.Watcher.dll
System.IO.IsolatedStorage.dll
System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles.dll
System.IO.Pipes.AccessControl.dll
System.IO.Pipes.dll
System.IO.UnmanagedMemoryStream.dll
System.Linq.dll
System.Linq.Expressions.dll
System.Linq.Parallel.dll
System.Linq.Queryable.dll
System.Memory.dll
System.Net.dll
System.Net.Http.dll
System.Net.HttpListener.dll
System.Net.Mail.dll
System.Net.NameResolution.dll
System.Net.NetworkInformation.dll
System.Net.Ping.dll
System.Net.Primitives.dll
System.Net.Requests.dll
System.Net.Security.dll
System.Net.ServicePoint.dll
System.Net.Sockets.dll
System.Net.WebClient.dll
System.Net.WebHeaderCollection.dll
System.Net.WebProxy.dll
System.Net.WebSockets.Client.dll
System.Net.WebSockets.dll
System.Numerics.dll
System.Numerics.Vectors.dll
System.ObjectModel.dll
System.Private.CoreLib.dll
System.Private.DataContractSerialization.dll
System.Private.Uri.dll
System.Private.Xml.dll
System.Private.Xml.Linq.dll
System.Reflection.DispatchProxy.dll
System.Reflection.dll
System.Reflection.Emit.dll
System.Reflection.Emit.ILGeneration.dll
System.Reflection.Emit.Lightweight.dll
System.Reflection.Extensions.dll
System.Reflection.Metadata.dll
System.Reflection.Primitives.dll
System.Reflection.TypeExtensions.dll
System.Resources.Reader.dll
System.Resources.ResourceManager.dll
System.Resources.Writer.dll
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.VisualC.dll
System.Runtime.dll
System.Runtime.Extensions.dll
System.Runtime.Handles.dll
System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll
System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll
System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime.dll
System.Runtime.Intrinsics.dll
System.Runtime.Loader.dll
System.Runtime.Numerics.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.Xml.dll
System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.dll
System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.UI.Xaml.dll
System.Security.AccessControl.dll
System.Security.Claims.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Cng.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Csp.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.OpenSsl.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.dll
System.Security.dll
System.Security.Principal.dll
System.Security.Principal.Windows.dll
System.Security.SecureString.dll
System.ServiceModel.Web.dll
System.ServiceProcess.dll
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages.dll
System.Text.Encoding.dll
System.Text.Encoding.Extensions.dll
System.Text.Encodings.Web.dll
System.Text.Json.dll
System.Text.RegularExpressions.dll
System.Threading.Channels.dll
System.Threading.dll
System.Threading.Overlapped.dll
System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll
System.Threading.Tasks.dll
System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll
System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.dll
System.Threading.Thread.dll
System.Threading.ThreadPool.dll
System.Threading.Timer.dll
System.Transactions.dll
System.Transactions.Local.dll
System.ValueTuple.dll
System.Web.dll
System.Web.HttpUtility.dll
System.Windows.dll
System.Xml.dll
System.Xml.Linq.dll
System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll
System.Xml.Serialization.dll
System.Xml.XDocument.dll
System.Xml.XmlDocument.dll
System.Xml.XmlSerializer.dll
System.Xml.XPath.dll
System.Xml.XPath.XDocument.dll
ucrtbase.dll
WindowsBase.dll

4.

Clear output directory, then use CLI publish with dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release --self-contained false

5.

After publish visit output directory, notice 5 files in it.

ConsoleApp1.deps.json
ConsoleApp1.dll
ConsoleApp1.exe
ConsoleApp1.pdb
ConsoleApp1.runtimeconfig.json

Tested on:

Visual Studio Community 16.4.3
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.18363
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.100-alpha.1.20069.7\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 5.0.0-alpha.1.20068.4
  Commit:  339b44734d

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  3.1.101 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  3.1.200-preview-014883 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  3.1.200 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  5.0.100-alpha.1.20069.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]