Question: why does publish pull binaries from $(IntermediateAssembly) instead of $(OutDir)

[shhsu]

Hi dotnet:

I am wondering why publish pull binaries from $(IntermediateAssembly) instead of $(OutDir)

sdk/src/Tasks/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks/targets/Microsoft.NET.Publish.targets

Line 354 in 77677cd

<ResolvedFileToPublish Include="@(IntermediateAssembly)"

Background:
I created a VSTS pipeline that calls msbuild to build/sign/publish my application (publish to file). However, I am finding that a bunch of binaries in my publish directory is not signed.

After some investigations I have found out that all bits in my $(OutDir) are signed, but the files got copied to publish directory are not from $(OutDir), instead they are from obj\Release\ directory. After looking at the target file I finally found the line that indicates this behavior.

I have yet to find a good around for this issue. I was wondering why is the reason for this behavior and if there is a workaround for this.

thanks
Peter

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