Steven Brix

Sorry, yeah `PublishSingleFile` will create a single .exe file without all the .dll's next to it. See this blog post for more on that https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingATinyNETCore30EntirelySelfcontainedSingleExecutable.aspx

> so, making sure I understand, it means I will have a 170MB or so for a "hello world" app (with say, 1% of it taken by the hello world...

Thanks @smourier, that really helped connect the dots. I now better understand the type of model that you are looking for. > But it was quite a simple process, just...

> and side-loading UWP app is difficult and painful for most of the end-user. @tlaster could you file an issue in https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion repo detailing the trouble you are having?

@tomasfabian, you're exactly the customer we want to hear from and understand more about. The current requirement for MSIX is a point-in-time issue, we fully plan on enabling unpackaged applications....

Adding @alwu for FYI. what does the `controls` namespace map to? this worked fine for me locally, although I did hit the first chance exception you see. You can disable...

Just so I understand this properly, you're saying that the auto-generated code results in the following compiler error?  And you're able to workaround it by moving the `local2` namespace...

Thanks @wbokkers, I'm glad you have a workaround, even though I'm sure it's annoying. Do you know if this is a regression in WinUI3, or if this happens in WinUI2.x...

@wbokkers I just tested this with a UWP project and it does look like it's happening, although maybe there was some regression in UWP that was missed?