[fix] Harden binding redirect validation to catch missing DLLs

[nohwnd]

verify-binding-redirects.ps1 silently skipped redirects whose DLL wasn't in the package layout. This allowed #15765 — the DiagnosticSource redirect shipped in testhost.exe.config but the DLL was excluded from the .nuspec.

Now it's an error: if the package exists but a redirect's target DLL is missing, the script fails. The whole-package-missing case (e.g. VMR where the exe isn't found at all) is still a skip.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR tightens packaging validation for binding redirects so redirects to assemblies missing from the package layout are treated as validation errors instead of being silently skipped.

Changes:

• Detects binding redirects whose target DLL cannot be found in the extracted package layout.
• Records those cases as validation errors and emits explicit error output.

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Fixed the CI failure. The new validation in verify-binding-redirects.ps1 correctly caught two stale binding redirects in vstest.console/app.config that pointed to DLLs not shipped in the package layout:

• System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource — explicitly excluded from the nuspec
• System.Text.Encodings.Web — explicitly excluded from the nuspec

Removed both redirects. These were silently skipped before; now the hardened script surfaces them as errors, which is exactly what this PR is designed to do.

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pr is from fork, don't touch this anymore PR iterator. My bad.

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eng/verify-binding-redirects.ps1:133

• Missing DLLs are reported through the same $errors collection as version mismatches, so the CI failure still tells contributors to run the local auto-fix even though this case cannot be auto-fixed and requires either shipping the DLL or removing the redirect. The missing-DLL error should carry actionable remediation instead of falling through to the generic version-mismatch instructions.

                # failures (e.g. #15765). Fail so the redirect gets removed.
                # This cannot be auto-fixed — the redirect must be manually removed or the DLL shipped.
                $errors += "$($entry.ExeName): $assemblyName has a binding redirect but the DLL is not in the package layout"

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