Visual studio puts the exe in a different folder and it wont open

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So for some reason my visual studio now puts the exe and build output in a different folder and the exe wont open. It used to be in Bin/Debug/Project.exe and now it's Bin/Debug/netcoreapp3.1/project.exe

I managed to open it once and it said something about hostfxr.dll missing, I downloaded that but now it won't open at all. If it helps, I have .NET 3.1 install, I'm on Windows 10 2004, and Visual Studio 16.6

Did you change the target platform from .NET Framework to .NET Core? — Lasse V. Karlsen, Jul 31 '20 at 19:29
oh god yes that was it! I must have missclicked. I'm still kinda new to this. Thanks so much — tada66, Jul 31 '20 at 22:07
@tada66, I am glad to hear that your problem has been solved, you can click '✔' to mark mark the appropriate reply as an answer. — Jack J Jun, Aug 03 '20 at 01:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '20 at 19:28

To change the location back to Bin/Debug/Project.exe make the following change in your .csproj file:

<PropertyGroup>
<AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

After that rebuild and verify if all works fine.

Visual studio puts the exe in a different folder and it wont open

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