WPF .exe - large filesize

Question

I am working on a WPF application and the .exe is found to be over 1.2MB in size. I would like to reduce the size of the final executable. The code is no more than a few 200 Kb,

Answer 1

This is probably an issue with embedded resources.

If you added images or other resources to the project, even if you delete the file from the project, the resource will remain embedded.

Check the Resources section of project properties.

For example, did you add your images as bitmaps first and later deleted the files and added as png?