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Prey is a first-person thriller/horror shooter situated in a massive space station orbiting the moon. Aliens have infested the station and it's up to you to make sure the aliens don't reach Earth. The game provides a large variety of game mechanics like crafting, collecting, inventory management, sneaking, platforming, puzzling, and satisfying combat.

If you've developed client applications or plugins for Dynamics CRM before, you are familiar with the CRM/XRM DLL's. You may have gotten those DLL's from the CRM installation, the SDK zip, or the NuGet package. Another way to interact with the CRM DLL's is through PowerShell. PowerShell is built upon .NET meaning you can call exactly the same CRM libraries from PowerShell as from .NET applications.

Instead of having to use the CRM interface to copy all the labels and values manually, you can save yourself a lot of time using this PowerShell script. Using the following script file named "GetOptionSet.ps1", you can list all the value/label pairs for a given Entity + OptionSet-Attribute:

This article walks us through running a ASP.NET Core web application on Linux (RHEL) using systemd. The end goal is to serve ASP.NET Core directly via the built-in Kestrel webserver over port 80/443.

Let's learn how to run a .NET Core console application on systemd. After running aconsole app as a service, we'll upgrade to using the worker template designed for long running services/daemons. Lastly, we'll add the systemd package integration.