Publishing WPF application

Question

When I publish my application it works fine on my computer however, when I try to run it on another computer it keeps asking me to download the specific .net core runtimes. My target framework is 3.1 and it keeps asking for the 3.1.4 runtimes or to install the 3.1.0 runtimes. I downloaded a newer version of the .net core sdk that goes along with the runtimes (3.1.300) but still no change. I tried changing my .netcore framework to 3.1.3 aswell but it still just shows 3.1, probably because 3.1.3 is a part of 3.1. Not sure how to address this issue other than to install 3.1.0 on the other users computers aswell.

Below is my csproj:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <RootNamespace>VRI_configurator</RootNamespace>
    <UseWPF>true</UseWPF>
    <ApplicationIcon>KHVT.png</ApplicationIcon>
    <PackageIcon>KHVT.png</PackageIcon>
    <PackageIconUrl />
    <StartupObject>VRI_configurator.App</StartupObject>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <None Remove="Resources\img\KHVT.png" />
    <None Include="/Resources/img/KHVT.png">
      <Pack>True</Pack>
      <PackagePath></PackagePath>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Resource Include="Resources\img\KHVT.png" />
    <Resource Include="Resources\img\search_icon.png" />
    <Resource Include="Resources\img\username_icon.png" />
    <Resource Include="Resources\img\password_icon.png" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="MahApps.Metro" Version="2.0.0-alpha0748" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf" Version="1.1.19" />
    <PackageReference Include="MySql.Data" Version="8.0.20" />
    <PackageReference Include="Prism.Core" Version="7.2.0.1422" />
    <PackageReference Include="System.Data.SqlClient" Version="4.8.1" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Update="Properties\Resources.Designer.cs">
      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
      <DependentUpon>Resources.resx</DependentUpon>
    </Compile>
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Update="Properties\Resources.resx">
      <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>Resources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
    </EmbeddedResource>
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

After a bit of searching I found the solution to my problem, I added the xml below to my csproj file under the PropertyGroup. Now it expects 3.1.4 or lower runtime framework to be installed on the users computer and no longer searches for 3.1.0.

<RuntimeFrameworkVersion>3.1.4</RuntimeFrameworkVersion>