How to run NET Core console app from the command line

Question

I have a  NET Core console app and have run dotnet publish  However  I can t figure out how to run the application from the command line  Any hints

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You can also run your app like any other console applications but only after the publish.

Let's suppose you have the simple console app named MyTestConsoleApp. Open the package manager console and run the following command:

dotnet publish -c Debug -r win10-x64

-c flag mean that you want to use the debug configuration (in other case you should use Release value) - r flag mean that your application will be runned on Windows platform with x64 architecture.

When the publish procedure will be finished your will see the *.exe file located in your bin/Debug/publish directory.

Now you can call it via command line tools. So open the CMD window (or terminal) move to the directory where your *.exe file is located and write the next command:

>> MyTestConsoleApp.exe argument-list

For example:

>> MyTestConsoleApp.exe --input some_text -r true

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Using CMD you can run a console  net core project if  net core SDK is installed in your machine    To run console project using windows command-Line  choose the specific path from your directory and type following below command      dotnet run

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Go to     bin Debug net5 0  net5 0 can also be something like  quot netcoreapp2 2 quot  depending on the framework you use    Open the power shell by clicking on it like shown in the picture  Type in powershell     yourApp exe You don t need dotnet publish just make sure you build it before to include all changes

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You can very easily create an EXE  for Windows  without using any cryptic build commands   You can do it right in Visual Studio    Right click the Console App Project and select Publish  A new page will open up  screen shot below  Hit Configure    Then change Deployment Mode to Self-contained or Framework dependent    NET Core 3 0 introduces a Single file deployment which is a single executable  Use  framework dependent  if you know the target machine has a  NET Core runtime as it will produce fewer files to install  If you now view the bin folder in explorer  you will find the  exe file  You will have to deploy the exe along with any supporting config and dll files

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With dotnetcore3 0 you can package entire solution into a single-file executable using PublishSingleFile property  -p PublishSingleFile True   Source Single-file executables  An example of Self Contained  Release OSX executable   dotnet publish -c Release -r osx-x64 -p PublishSingleFile True --self-contained True   An example of Self Contained  Debug Linux 64bit executable   dotnet publish -c Debug -r linux-x64 -p PublishSingleFile True --self-contained True   Linux build is independed of distribution and I have found them working on Ubuntu 18 10  CentOS 7 7  and Amazon Linux 2   A Self Contained executable includes Dotnet Runtime and Runtime does not require to be installed on a target machine  The published executables are saved under    lt ProjectDir gt  bin  lt Release or Debug gt  netcoreapp3 0  lt target-os gt  publish  on Linux  OSX and   lt ProjectDir gt  bin  lt Release or Debug gt  netcoreapp3 0  lt target-os gt  publish  on Windows

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before you run in cmd prompt  make sure  appsettings json  has same values as  appsettings Development json    In command prompt  go all the way to bin debug netcoreapp2 0 folder  then run  dotnet applicationname dll

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If it s a framework-dependent application  the default   you run it by dotnet yourapp dll   If it s a self-contained application  you run it using yourapp exe on Windows and   yourapp on Unix   For more information about the differences between the two app types  see the  NET Core Application Deployment article on  Net Docs

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