Add support to process assemblies with generics <T>

[josesimoes]

Description

• Rework metadata tables to include elements to hold data on generic types and instances.
• Add support for MethodSpec and TypeSpec.
• Rework most of the tables to include data for generic types and instances.
• Add sanity checks and code in a bunch of several places.
• Rewrote PDBX writer from XML to json.
• Add new extensions to improve usage.
• Rewrote dumper to follow format from ILDASM.
• Add new unit tests to cover changes.
• Update YAML for AZDO so that a specific nanoCLR can be used when running the unit tests allowing to fully cover all possible changes.
• Update dumper and writer unit tests.
• Update dependencies on console, msbuild tasks and core.
• Update sub-modules to ref generic branches (to be replaced with main, following merge).
• Code style fixes throughout source files.
• Add/update license header in all source files.

Motivation and Context

• Addresses Support for generics <T> Home#782.

How Has This Been Tested?

• Running unit tests
  [tested against nanoclr buildId 55254]

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Types of changes

• Improvement (non-breaking change that improves a feature, code or algorithm)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue with code or algorithm)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality to code)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Config and build (change in the configuration and build system, has no impact on code or features)
• Dependencies (update dependencies and changes associated, has no impact on code or features)
• Unit Tests (add new Unit Test(s) or improved existing one(s), has no impact on code or features)
• Documentation (changes or updates in the documentation, has no impact on code or features)

Checklist:

• My code follows the code style of this project (only if there are changes in source code).
• My changes require an update to the documentation (there are changes that require the docs website to be updated).
• I have updated the documentation accordingly (the changes require an update on the docs in this repo).
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have tested everything locally and all new and existing tests passed (only if there are changes in source code).
• I have added new tests to cover my changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores

  • Updated various project dependencies to their latest versions for improved stability and performance.
  • Enhanced build pipeline configuration with refined formatting and execution flow adjustments.

• New Features

  • Introduced a preview release (version 4.0-preview) that paves the way for upcoming experimental capabilities.