[release/13.4] Improve dashboard summary log formatting

[aspire-repo-bot]

Backport of #17595 to release/13.4

/cc James Newton-King (@JamesNK)

Customer Impact

Improves a very user visible log message

Testing

Manual and automated testing

Risk

Very low

Regression?

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✅ No documentation update needed.

docs_optional → internal_refactor: No documentation PR needed.

• No signals triggered (signal_count = 0).
• All 3 changed files are either an internal shared helper (src/Shared/LoggingHelpers.cs) or test files (tests/Aspire.Dashboard.Tests/...).
• The change improves the formatting of the dashboard startup log output (adding - bullet prefixes, aligning URLs under the .NET console logger indentation, and splitting the container warning into a separate LogInformation call). This is a purely internal formatting/readability improvement with no public API, CLI flags, configuration keys, or documented surface affected.
• The aspire.dev documentation does not describe the specific text or format of these startup log messages.