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Dongbo Wang 8ae6c5bb3b Refactor PowerShell Core to use the default CoreCLR loader instead (#3903)
Remove the code that spins up our own assembly load context. Keep the code that registers our `Resolve` method to the default loader's `Resolving` event, so that we can continue to do special assembly resolution as needed (such as the GAC probing logic needed for consuming FullCLR PS modules).

Essentially, the assembly `Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.AssemblyLoadContext.dll` is not needed anymore, the remaining code should be moved to S.M.A.dll. However, that will break DSC and other native hosts that are hosting powershell. So this assembly is kept for now.
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PowerShell

The powershell[.exe] executable for PowerShell is built by powershell-unix and powershell-windows projects, as they are the top dependencies of the graph, and has emitEntryPoint: true, meaning a native executable is produced automatically by CLI (no need to own a separate native host).

This project is a very simple shim that provides a Main function for .NET CLI to produce an app. It initializes PowerShell's custom AssemblyLoadContext and then delegates to the same Start function in Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost that the original native PowerShell host executes; thus we share the same entry point and the same PowerShell host, but use a different native host. This lets us take full advantage of .NET CLI's native host.

We use this shim so that the ConsoleHost project and the original native host do not have to be changed. Additionally, until .NET CLI bugs surrounding content file deployment are solved, this shim allows us to continue with our split Modules folders work-around to deploy the correct versions.