How to change the executable name on publish in .NET 7

Question

to demonstrate i will use illustrative names.

• I use VSCode

The problem

I have a project with name App.

I i enter on my terminal and type: dotnet publish --configuration Release -o build

i will have an exe ./build/App.exe.

this is the current behavior.

The wanted solution

So, i need the executable name to be cli.exe when i run the publish command instead of App.exe.

How can i do that?

I have been tried the:

<TargetName>cli</TargetName>

but this tag only changes the .dll file, not the .exe.

Answer 1

Instead of TargetName use AssemblyName