Ensure test console always works in VS test explorer #18836
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I noticed that the testhost fails catastrophically when executing some selected tests with "run until failure" in VS.
The reason is that apparently VS can keep alive the testhost and execute xUnit's
CreateExecutor
andRunTestCases
many times, but we did some one-time initialisation there. In effect TestConsole redirectors returned null, bringing everything down.This moves the initialization again to a safer place. Also adds some defenses to never return null when a redirected stream is expected.