Enable assembly trimming and single-file publish on all platforms #1419
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Depends on: #1417 and #1418
Now that we no longer have to target .NET Framework on Windows, and we are using the latest .NET (.NET 8) and CoreCLR, we can take advantage of the mature and stable assembly trimming logic in the SDK.
This will allow us to reduce the number and sizes of binaries that we produce and ship. In addition we enable single-file publishing on all platforms that links all CIL code in to the same entry executable. Native dependencies remain separate files, such as the MSAL runtime, and Avalonia graphics library dependencies.
In order to enable trimming we had to:
** TODO: size comparisons **
Fixes: #113