Run Visual Studio Test task in 64bit

All of our managed assemblies are build with the any cpu target and we can use both the 32-bit and 64-bit task runner of Azure Pipelines.

One of our projects uses a C++ DLL that is either in 32-bit or 64-bit and we need a specific test runner (the 64-bit one to be exact) to not fail with a System.BadImageFormatExeption.

By default the Visual Studio test runner will start a 32-bit process. If you need to use the 64-bit version you need to specify extra arguments with supplying otherConsoleOptions to the task:

- task: VSTest@2
  displayName: Run tests
  inputs:
    testAssemblyVer2: |
      **\bin\$(BuildConfiguration)\**\*Test.dll
      !**\obj\**
      !**\xunit.runner.visualstudio.testadapter.dll
      !**\xunit.runner.visualstudio.dotnetcore.testadapter.dll
    runTestsInIsolation: true
    codeCoverageEnabled: true
    otherConsoleOptions: '/Platform:x64'

Note: The Visual Studio Test task sports a parameter called platformwhich does not change the architecture of the test runner executable.

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