Technological choices

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Web Client

There are many web clients available for net. Microsoft offers several versions:

• WebClient - now deprecated
• HttpClient - the recommended version

Bibliography

• Dotnet Web Client
• Dotnet Http Client

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Settings file

Outsourcing application parameters requires careful consideration. There's the dotnet standard, but I also have to take into account the need to adapt to the constraints of the github CI/CD/CD that will be used in this project.

The obvious thing to do is to externalize the parameters to a file, so that there's no trace of this type of information either in my code or in my repository. On the other hand, should I use environment variables or variables specific to my project?

I'm wondering about this for CI/CD/CD, but also for Docker, which will be the execution environment for my application.

Bibliography

• ConfigurationManager - with a console app
• ConfigurationManagerClass
• Using .env in .NET
• System.Configuration.dll missing
• How to add reference
• Nuget and System.Configuration
• How to read application settings

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Serialization