[Desktop] OutputType cannot be changed

[jeromelaban]

Current behavior

Setting <OutputType>Exe</OutputType> does not have an effect on skia desktop and still shows the console on windows.

Expected behavior

The console does not show.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)

No response

Workaround

<Target Name="__OverrideOutputType" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
  <PropertyGroup>
   <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Target>

Works on UWP/WinUI

Yes

Environment

Uno.WinUI / Uno.WinUI.WebAssembly / Uno.WinUI.Skia

NuGet package version(s)

No response

Affected platforms

No response

IDE

No response

IDE version

No response

Relevant plugins

No response

Anything else we need to know?

No response

[ArchieCoder]

I put the workaround near the end of the project, but it does not work.

[Youssef1313]

@ArchieCoder If you want to hide the console, you probably need WinExe?

[ArchieCoder]

@Youssef1313 I tried but it does not work

<Project Sdk="Uno.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFrameworks>
      net8.0-windows10.0.19041;
      net8.0-desktop;
    </TargetFrameworks>

    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <UnoSingleProject>true</UnoSingleProject>
    <UnoSplashScreenColor>#F9F9F9</UnoSplashScreenColor>
    <!-- Display name -->
    <ApplicationTitle>Elements Technician</ApplicationTitle>
    <!-- App Identifier -->
    <ApplicationId>com.Enteligent.ElementsTechnician</ApplicationId>
    <!-- Versions -->
    <ApplicationDisplayVersion>1.0</ApplicationDisplayVersion>
    <ApplicationVersion>1</ApplicationVersion>
    <!--
      If you encounter this error message:

        error NETSDK1148: A referenced assembly was compiled using a newer version of Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.dll.
        Please update to a newer .NET SDK in order to reference this assembly.

      This means that the two packages below must be aligned with the "build" version number of
      the "Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools" package above, and the "revision" version number
      must be the highest found in https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref.
    -->
    <!-- <WindowsSdkPackageVersion>10.0.22621.28</WindowsSdkPackageVersion> -->

    <!--
      UnoFeatures let's you quickly add and manage implicit package references based on the features you want to use.
      https://aka.platform.uno/singleproject-features
    -->
    <UnoFeatures>
      Lottie;
      Hosting;
      Toolkit;
      Logging;
      LoggingSerilog;
      Mvvm;
      Configuration;
      Http;
      Serialization;
      Localization;
      Navigation;
    </UnoFeatures>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetPlatformIdentifier('$(TargetFramework)')) == 'windows'">
    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls" />
    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.DataGrid" />
    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI" />
    <PackageReference Include="WinUIEx" />
    <!-- Add more community toolkit references here -->
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetPlatformIdentifier('$(TargetFramework)')) != 'windows'">
    <PackageReference Include="Uno.CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls" />
    <PackageReference Include="Uno.CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.DataGrid" />
    <PackageReference Include="Uno.CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI" />
    <!-- Add more uno community toolkit references here -->
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite" />
    <PackageReference Include="MQTTnet" />
    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" />
    <PackageReference Include="Uno.Fonts.OpenSans" />
    <PackageReference Include="Zeroconf" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <Target Name="__OverrideOutputType" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
    <PropertyGroup>
      <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    </PropertyGroup>
  </Target>

</Project>

[agneszitte]

@rajamatt if you can help verify if @dansiegel changes (#17974) will fix the issue please

[jeromelaban]

@ArchieCoder using 5.4.5, this is preventing the console from showing:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFrameworks>net8.0-android;net8.0-ios;net8.0-maccatalyst;net8.0-windows10.0.19041;net8.0-browserwasm;net8.0-desktop</TargetFrameworks>

    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <OutputType Condition="'$(TargetFramework)'=='net8.0-desktop'">WinExe</OutputType>

The only linked issue is that the hot reload tooling (MainWindow.EnableHotReload()) is disabled incorrectly when this happens that we'll fix separately.

[ArchieCoder]

@jeromelaban Tested! Thank you a lot for this one :)