Allow providing msbuild logger implicitly (e.g. from env var)
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### Summary
We would like to add a logger for all builds on our self-hosted build machines. The main idea would be to add the logger dll somewhere on the machine and set an environment variable, so the logger is automatically part of the build without requiring a change in all projects.
### Background and Motivation
We want to provide diagnostic/observability data for all projects running on our build machines. For MSBuild, we want to create a custom logger to export data. However, the current setup requires a change in all MSBuild commands (dotnet build, dotnet test, etc.) to explicitly reference the custom logger.
We would like to avoid this burden and have a way to add the logger automatically.
### Proposed Feature
Add a new environment variable to declare additional loggers `MSBUILD_ADDITIONAL_LOGGERS`. For instance: `MSBUILD_ADDITIONAL_LOGGERS=/full/path/to/CustomLogger.dll`. These loggers would be implicitly added to the loggers from the CLI (`--logger`)
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