CefSharp v132.3.11 native binaries for chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x** get copied over to bin folder

[snkar-hyland]

The native assets come from chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x86 and chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x64 packages. Depending on your project structure you may need to explicitly exclude the native assets from those packages.

Thank you so much for your help. I was finally able to resolve the issue following the link you suggested and the following changes from your suggestion.

<!-- For older versions you might need to exclude native assets on the transitive dependency in this case chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x86  -->
<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="CefSharp.WinForms" Version="123.0.60"/>
  <PackageReference Include="chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x86" Version="123.0.6">
    <ExcludeAssets>native</ExcludeAssets>
  </PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>

Originally posted by @koder4076 in #4785 (reply in thread)

[snkar-hyland]

The above solution had worked except that it added a reference to the chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x86 binary for all the projects in the solution which makes sense as we have used an Include attribute. So we decided to make the necessary changes to ensure that the CefSharp dependency chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x86 will not be copying over the native files (CefSharp.dll, chrome_100_percent.pak, chrome_200_percent.pak, chrome_elf.dll, d3dcompiler_47.dll, icudtl.dat, libcef.dll, libEGL.dll, libGLESv2.dll, resources.pak, snapshot_blob.bin, v8_context_snapshot.bin, vk_swiftshader_icd.json, vk_swiftshader.dll, vulkan-1.dll) in the bin folder for the project and also it should not add the dependency reference to all the projects where they are not needed.

We tried:

1. Added a property to the csproj file for the project to indicate that it is a project that uses CefSharp as a reference (<PropertyGroup> <CefSharpReferenced>true</CefSharpReferenced> </PropertyGroup>) and modified the package.props file to read:

<PackageReference Include="chromiumembeddedframework.runtime.win-x86" Version="132.3.1" Condition="'$(CefSharpReferenced)' == 'true'"> <ExcludeAssets>native</ExcludeAssets> </PackageReference>

But this did not work. We were not considering this as the best option as, had it worked, we would have had to modify the csproj files for all the projects that reference CefSharp.

But since it did not work, we are not sure on what way to proceed. Can anyone guide us with a possible solution?