How to publish the extensions so they can be loaded by Chrome?

[Tony20221]

How did the sample extensions get published to the browserextension folders?

If I publish in Visual Studio where the destination is ../dist\, VS creates a wwwroot folder under the dist folder with subfolder names _content & _framework and Chrome refuses to load an extension from folders that start with an underscore.

[mingyaulee]

The samples are published using the standard dotnet publish command. The publish output will contain a directory named browserextension, which is where you can load the extension into Chrome.

I have not tried publishing using VS, but I suspect that it will be calling to the same command for publishing new .Net projects, so the output should be the same.

[Tony20221]

The dotnet publish command worked. It seems publishing within VS works differently.