Writing the first vb.net VS2022 application involved a lot of experimentation and adding then (only in a few cases) removing packages to the project. In the end the binrelease folder contains a huge number of dlls which I’m sure I don’t need. For example at one time I tried implementing “user-secrets” but then gave up after learning it doesn’t do what I thought, by now I can’t even remember where I typed in the user secret stuff, or if I deleted them, But there is a “Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets.dll” in the release folder!