Publishing .Net framework/wpf desktop applications using Rider

Hello Anna-Rosa,

Unfortunately, Rider doesn't support publishing legacy-style .Net Framework projects. I recommend migrating your .csproj to a modern sdk-style project. 

For example, such a project (.csproj) can be published in Rider just fine:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <TargetFramework>net472</TargetFramework>
        <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
        <UseWpf>true</UseWpf>
        <GenerateAssemblyInfo>false</GenerateAssemblyInfo>
    </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

The rest available options are:

• Manually copy the built binaries;
• Publish via Visual Studio that provides built-in support for ClickOnce (not supported in Rider: RIDER-54122 ClickOnce publishing support)

Hope that helps