Visual Studio 2017 and a missing EXE file

Question

(I am using Visual Studio 2017.)

I started a small console application. A Discord C# bot. So I always launched this program with Visual Studio. After finishing it, I

Answer 1

There is no exe file because you created a .NET Core application.

You have two options:

1. If you want an EXE, you need to target the .NET Framework.
2. If you don't want to change your code, then you need to install .NET Core on the server and run dotnet pathToDll on a command line