WiX Version

6.0.2

.NET or MSBuild or Visual Studio Version

.NET SDK 10.0.201

HeatWave Version

1.0.6

Repro Steps

• Have a Wix project that references a target project with Publish="true" option in a .wixproj file:

<Project Sdk="WixToolset.Sdk/6.0.2">

  ...

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="path\to\target\app.csproj" Publish="true" />
  </ItemGroup>

  ...

</Project>

• Buind the project. As expected, app has been published to the path\to\installer\project\obj\$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\publish\ProjectName directory
• Run dotnet clean on the project or right click on project is VS and run 'Clean' context menu action

Repro Repo

No response

Actual Result

The path\to\installer\project\obj\$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\publish\ProjectName (or the whole publish folder) in not cleaned. In practice this may lead to unexpected files being bundled into an installer. For example, in my app I had a dependency. Then I refactored my code to avoid it. Then cleaned solution/installer project and rebuilt the installer. Since the previous dependency dll is still in the publish\ProjectName folder, it gets bundled into an installer despite being no longer needed

Expected Result

Cleaning project deletes all content of path\to\installer\project\obj\$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\publish folder to clean all previous publish results

Acknowledgements

• I acknowledge that this is a fully completed bug report. It is not a question or attempt to get help debugging my issue (because those should be sent to Discussions).
• I am paying the Open Source Maintenance Fee by sponsoring the wixtoolset project because I support the maintainers.