Hi! I found your comment on the AOT discussion page and came here to see your advancements in publishing trimmed WinForms app.

Unfortunately, I was unable to make your repo working right away. Debug cannot start, immediately throw an exception somewhere in settings. Published app does not start, just nothing happen. Does it actually work? Were you able to publish it as AOT?

My app has similar setup with tray icon and just two child forms, "settings" and "about", right as yours. and I nearly gave up with AOT WinForms, despite of Net 8 promises.