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Your project opens in Visual Studio.
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-4. In Visual Studio, from the **Solution Configurations** drop-down menu, select **Release**.
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+4. In Visual Studio, from the **Solution Explorer** right click your Windows project and select **Publish**
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-5. From the **Solution platforms** drop-down menu, select the platform you want to create a build for.
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+5. Select the **Target** **Folder** in the publish window.
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+6. Select the **Specified target** **Folder** again.
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+7. Confirm the output folder and Click **Finish**.
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+8. You should now see the **Publish** view where you can manage the project export settings.
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+9. Finally you can click publish and see your project in the output folder you selected at **step 6**
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+ Optionally you can also include the .NET runtime in your exported game to reduce a dependancy on the user.
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+ Select **Show all settings** -> **Deployment mode** -> **Self-contained** -> **Save**
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- >You can only build for platforms you've added to your Stride project. For instructions about how to do this, see [Add or remove a platform](../platforms/add-or-remove-a-platform.md).
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+ > You can only build for platforms you've added to your Stride project. For instructions about how to do this, see [Add or remove a platform](../platforms/add-or-remove-a-platform.md).
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- >To build for Android or iOS, you need Xamarin, which is included with Visual Studio licenses. For instructions about how to install Xamarin with Visual Studio 2017, see [this MSDN page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/cross-platform/setup-and-install).
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+ > To build for Android or iOS, you need Xamarin, which is included with Visual Studio licenses. For instructions about how to install Xamarin with Visual Studio 2017, see [this MSDN page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/cross-platform/setup-and-install).
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-6. Under **Build**, select **Build solution**.
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+10. Under **Build**, select **Publish Selection** and click the **Publish** button.
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- Visual Studio creates a release build in your project bin folder (eg *MyGame/Bin/MyPlatform/Release*).
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+ Visual Studio creates a release build in your selected output folder.
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> You might want to rename the **Release** folder to something more descriptive (such as the title of your game).
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### To build using terminal instead of Visual Studio
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- 1. You would need to install Visual Studio to get **Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio (Version)**
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- C:\User> msbuild PathToSln\NameOfProject.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:OutputPath=YourPreferredPath
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+ 1. Ensure the relevant .NET SDK is installed (Stride 4.2 is on .NET 8)
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+ 2. open the folder of your project where the *.Windows.csproj file sits.
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+ 3. Type `cmd` in the search bar to open the folder easily in terminal.
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+ 4. finally publish with the command
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+ ```
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+ dotnet publish
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+ or the below to include the .NET runtime with your game
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+ dotnet publish -r win-x64 --self-contained true --framework net8.0-windows
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+ ```
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+ You can also append `--output <YOUR_EXPORT_FOLDER>` to specify where to export to.
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## 2. Delete unnecessary files
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@@ -65,7 +96,7 @@ After you create a release build, how you distribute it is up to you.
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To run games made with Stride on Windows, users need:
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-* .NET 8 SDK
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+* .NET 8 Runtime (Unless you published with **self-contained**)
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* DirectX11 (included with Windows 10 and later), OpenGL, or Vulkan
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* [Add or remove a platform](../platforms/add-or-remove-a-platform.md)
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* [Version control](version-control.md)
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* [Project structure](project-structure.md)
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+* [Microsoft documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-publish)
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Vaclav Elias
