I have searched quite a lot on this subject but most of the answers are pretty old and while I've tried them, they do not work for me.
I have an Avalonia project that I made which is working as intended when I build either debug or release version of it. The Project references a few other projects and also being Avalonia, it builds a lot of dlls in the root build folder (Pictures below).
The build folder has 48 different dlls in there and I want to move the dlls in a separate folder. To that end, I created an app.config file in the project (There wasn't one by default) and added the below code in there.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<probing privatePath="lib"/>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
</configuration>
Also in the postscript, I added this bit of code to move the dlls, xmls and pdbs to the root/lib folder:
:: Moves files to a subdirectory, to unclutter the application folder
:: Note that the new subdirectory should be probed so the dlls can be found.
SET path=$(TargetDir)\lib
if not exist "%path%" mkdir "%path%"
mklink /d %path%
del /S /Q "%path%"
move /Y $(TargetDir)*.dll "%path%"
move /Y $(TargetDir)*.xml "%path%"
move /Y $(TargetDir)*.pdb "%path%"
The move function happens and the build gets completed but when I try to open the application, It does not give me any indication of something is going wrong and just does not open. In debug launch, I get this error in the build console:
The target process exited without raising a CoreCLR started event. Ensure that the target process is configured to use .NET Core. This may be expected if the target process did not run on .NET Core.
The program '[23508] PALauncher.exe' has exited with code -2147450726 (0x8000809a).
Which I interpreted as the application not being able to read the dlls. I do not understand what I am doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Apologies for the great long post. But I wanted to make my problem as clear as possible.
