Alright I'll be brief, I'm having a rough time of this. I've created an app that needs testing and was going to distribute it to a few close friends. I'm trying to package a Self-Contained Single File app for ease of access, but every time I select those settings when I publish, the app will crash immediately upon startup.

It works fine when I execute it in Visual Studio, both in Debug and Release mode. I'm using .NET8.0 as my target framework and Winx64 system.

I've tried just about every permutation of these settings in my .csproj file:
<PropertyGroup>

`<PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>`

`<IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>true</IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>`

`<SelfContained>true</SelfContained>`

`<PublishTrimmed>false</PublishTrimmed>`

</PropertyGroup>

but nothing works. The app will work if I set it to Self-Contained but not to Single File, however it also includes just about every single .dll file known to man (295 items) and it's driving me insane. I'm using three packages:
- SignalR

- SignalR.Client

- Newtonsoft.Json

I'm using the latest version of Microsoft Visual Studio and have no idea where to go from here. Also I'm frustrated. I'd appreciate any help.