disabling-localized-satellite-assemblies-during-dotnet-publish/

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disabling-localized-satellite-assemblies-during-dotnet-publish/

In this post I show how to reduce the size of the publish output for .NET apps by preventing the publishing of localization resources when they're not needed

https://andrewlock.net/disabling-localized-satellite-assemblies-during-dotnet-publish/

[svrooij]

Thanks you @andrewlock for this great post! Those extra dlls really bug me.
And cool that you added giscus to your blog. I did not get to that. Have a blog about that?

[andrewlock]

Of course, I have several 😁

https://andrewlock.net/considering-replacing-disqus-with-giscus/

https://andrewlock.net/replacing-disqus-with-github-discussions-using-giscus/

https://andrewlock.net/migrating-comments-from-dsqus-to-giscus/

[Inzagio]

Really cool article. Have you experimented this and self-contained single executable? I did one attempt myself and it did not appear to shrink in size. Of course, there could be many nuances to this I'd assume.

I only tried with setting the SatelliteResourceLanguages property to 'en' though, did not use a GlobalizationInvariant true.

[andrewlock]

Interesting - I have not experimented with that, no, but I'm not sure why it wouldn't work 🤔

[henkealg]

Great informative post.
Turns out that the value "none" is equal to "en" SatelliteResourceLanguages so we are using "none" as it seems more explanatory of what the setting will accomplish.

[robigit]

Hi. I have a MAUI App that when I publish it, it copies all the language folders with inside Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Phone.dll.mui and Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll.mui,
I tried to put SatelliteResourceLanguages in the project but nothing's changed.
Is there any other thing that I can put to avoid that ?
Thank you

[epsilon-greater-zero]

The other day a colleague from operations asked me: Why do you now produce all these folders. I think, we do not need them. Um, right.
But how to get rid of them? You explained it straightforward.
Thank you very much.

[orjan]

Thanks for a nice write up!
This works fine for external dependencies. I can't get it to work where are a class library (containing resources) is referenced from another project in the same solution e.g:

MyApp.Api (<SatelliteResourceLanguages>en</>) => MyApp.Core (contains resources)