release – How do I distribute my program from a Visual Studio Solution?

I recently created a program in Visual Studio that I’d like to share with the world, up untill this point all of the programming I did was only for personal use so I have no experience preparing a program for release.

I found some information about building for release so I tried it but I ended up with 5 different files (3 of which are needed for succesfull execution):

• the .exe file
• a .dll file of the same name
• a .pdb file of the same name (not needed for succesfull execution)
• a runtimeconfig.json file
• a deps.json file (not needed for succesfull execution)
  I’d like to just distribute a single .exe file, like a portable version. Is this possible?