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Call out that doing a single-file publish is self-contained, not framework-dependent.
gewarren
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| @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ The following MSBuild properties change the output of `dotnet publish`. | |||
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| Packages the app into a platform-specific single-file executable. For more information about single-file publishing, see the [single-file bundler design document](https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/single-file/design.md). | |||
| Packages the app into a platform-specific single-file executable. For more information about single-file publishing, see the [single-file bundler design document](https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/single-file/design.md). This implicitly sets the `PublishSelfContained` property to `true` when this property is set to `true`. | |||
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| Packages the app into a platform-specific single-file executable. For more information about single-file publishing, see the [single-file bundler design document](https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/single-file/design.md). This implicitly sets the `PublishSelfContained` property to `true` when this property is set to `true`. | |
| Packages the app into a platform-specific single-file executable. For more information about single-file publishing, see the [single-file bundler design document](https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/single-file/design.md). When this property is set to `true`, the `PublishSelfContained` property is implicitly set to `true`. |
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Call out that doing a single-file publish is self-contained, not framework-dependent.
Summary
This information is kind of spread around, but since this flag has a pretty drastic impact let's make the implication an _ex_plication here.
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