How to compile a .NET Core 2 MVC web application in EXE?

Question

I want to create a Kestrel standalone .exeDotNetCore 2.0 MVC Web API application in Visual Studio 2017, however I cannot find any documentation. About how to compile it as standalone .exe(without using dotnet run).

Microsoft documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/deploying/deploy-with-vs covers only the console application, and after changes to .csproj it doesn't matter

<RuntimeIdentifiers>win10-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>

(note that this is not a .NET Core 1.x issue)

Answer 1

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dotnet publish --configuration Release --runtime win-x64

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