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Change .NET Core application generated exe description

I have created a .NET Core application. When I do:

dotnet publish -r win81-x64

All files needed to execution are deployed in the following folder:

\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\win81-x64\publish

There, among all the files I have a dll file with the name Example.dll and the exe file named Example.exe. Now, my problem is when I execute the exe, in the task manager the application description says:

dotnet

I would like to change that to Example, for that I tried to edit my csproj to contain the following:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <Version>1.0.0.0</Version>
    <Description>Example</Description>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.1</TargetFramework>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win81-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <Satellite_Description>Example</Satellite_Description>
  </PropertyGroup>

But it doesn't seems to have any affect in the generated exe file, only ind the dll. How can I change the exe description?

Solution

  • Currently this is not possible in the build process.

    Unlike classic .NET projects, this .exe file isn't actually compiled but is a pre-built binary (dotnet.exe, in 2.0 apphost.exe) acquired via a NuGet package and copied/renamed to the publish output.

    There is an issue on GitHub about changing the description after being launched, but at the time of writing it is not assigned to a milestone of an expected release.