First of all, thank you for the great effort of enabling .NET core support. I tried updating our kiosk software from net48 to net5.0-windows. Using the latest pre-release this was quite easy. But when I published the application using a self-contained runtime it would run but was unable to render the web browser control. After a bit of experimenting I noticed that if I copy all CefSharp assets to a separate directory and changed CefSettings.BrowserSubprocessPath property to Path.Combine(currentDirectory, "cefsharp", "CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe") and not deleting the aforementioned assets from the publish directory everything works as it should.

• What version of the product are you using?

  • v88.2.40-pre

• What architecture x86 or x64?

  • x64

• On what operating system?

  • Windows 10

• Are you using WinForms, WPF or OffScreen?

  • WPF

• What steps will reproduce the problem?

  • Install .NET 5.0.3 SDK
  • git clone https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.MinimalExample.git
  • Change CefSharp.MinimalExample.Wpf.csproj target framework to net5.0-windows
  • Update CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore package reference to 88.2.40-pre
  • cd CefSharp.MinimalExample
  • dotnet publish .\CefSharp.MinimalExample.netcore.sln -c Release --runtime win-x64 --self-contained
  • .\CefSharp.MinimalExample.Wpf\bin.netcore\x64\Release\net5.0-windows\win-x64\publish\CefSharp.MinimalExample.Wpf.netcore.exe

• What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

  • The application starts but is fails to load google.com website