How to 'publish' a test exe for a DirectX Game project in Visual Studio 2022

I'm attempting to publish an executable file to my disk to learn more about exporting and sharing projects from Visual Studio. I've modified the "DirectX Game UWP" project template, and followed part of the tutorials associated with the template. When attempting to publish the project however, I don't see a publishing wizard that I see elsewhere on the internet, with an option to publish to a folder. Instead there is a drop-down menu for 1: Associating an App with the Store, 2: Convert Content Group Map File, and 3: Create App Packages. I attempted the 3rd option with sideloading, but I do not think I used that options correctly.

I also added the "Publish Selection" command to the menu bar, but it is grayed out, although it seems to have the blue planet symbol that appears next to the button that seems to normally appear next to the publishing button for other users:

I would like to know, is there some kind of setup or installer file that I have to create to share a DirectX project, or am I missing a publishing option in the menus somewhere?