Publish your dotnet app (WinUI 3, WPF, Console) as a zip file with auto changelog in Github Release with Github Action.

• Download yml file into your repo and ./github/workflow folder.
• Edit yml file and Config Options:

NOTE: currently we build your dotnet app with dotnet-version: 8.0.x

• PROJECT_PATH: App1/App1.csproj
• APP_NAME: MyApp

if you set to true, before creating a new tag, we can check to see if tag exist, we go to next step, but if tag is not exsist, then we create a new tag. if you set this to false, we dont check it. so if tag already exist, workflow will be terminated.

• CHECK_TAG_EXISTENCE_BEFORE_CREATING_TAG: false

you can add your nuget sources.

• IS_COMMUNITY_TOOLKIT_NUGET_SOURCE_ENABLED: false
• IS_CUSTOM_NUGET_SOURCE_ENABLED: false
• CUSTOM_NUGET_SOURCES: '' # Example ('https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json, https://api.nuget.org/v2/index.json,...')

NOTE: if you enable IS_COMMUNITY_TOOLKIT_NUGET_SOURCE_ENABLED following CommunityToolkit sources will be added.

CommunityToolkit-Labs: https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CommunityToolkit/_packaging/CommunityToolkit-Labs/nuget/v3/index.json
CommunityToolkit-Main: https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CommunityToolkit/_packaging/CommunityToolkit-MainLatest/nuget/v3/index.json

• PUBLISH_OUTPUT_FOLDER: publish
• PUBLISH_SELF_CONTAINED: false
• PUBLISH_SINGLE_FILE: false
• PUBLISH_READY_TO_RUN: false
• PUBLISH_TRIMMED: false
• PUBLISH_TRIM_MODE: partial
• PUBLISH_AOT: false

NOTE: Use the PUBLISH_TRIM_MODE property to set the trimming granularity to either partial or full.

NOTE: PUBLISH_AOT currently support only Console App.

• IS_PRE_RELEASE: false
• SKIP_IF_RELEASE_EXIST: true
• MAKE_LATEST: true
• ALLOW_UPDATES: false
• ARTIFACT_ERRORS_FAIL_BUILD: false

if you set a suffix (beta, alpha, preview, experimental) for version tag in your csproj file, IS_PRE_RELEASE will be changed to true based on suffix.

<Version>1.0.0-beta1</Version>

if you want to build your app for x64 and x86 only, you can change platform:

platform: [x64, x86]

or if you want x64 only:

platform: [x64]

there is a knonw issue for WinUI 3, if you are using Class Library in your project, you should add following code into your class library csproj file:

<EnableMsixTooling>true</EnableMsixTooling>

Otherwise, the build will fail.

for fixing this, we passed /p:GITHUB_ACTIONS=true property into dotnet publish command.

now you can use a Directory.Build.props file in your project root folder with following Content:

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(GITHUB_ACTIONS)' == 'true'">
    <EnableMsixTooling>true</EnableMsixTooling>
</PropertyGroup>

This way, when you are using github action, all your projects will include EnableMsixTooling, And the build/publish will be done successfully.