ISTBirthday

This is a telegram bot written in C# designed to remind people about the birthdays of people added to the MySQL database. The database is generated based on Entity Framework Core models.

The Model(Student) has such fields as:

• name
• surname
• patronymic
• date of birth
• contact information
• and so on.

To build this application you need .NET 5 SDK.

To use the application, you need to configure MySQL server version 8.0.

If command line arguments are passed, environment variables will be ignored.

Environment Variables:

Name	Description
TOKEN	Token for telegram bot
CONNECTION_STRING	Connection string for MySQL server 8.0.*

Command line arguments:

Short	Alternative	Action
-h	--help	show help message.
-t	--token	set a bot token.
-c	--connection-string	set a db connection string.

Bot commands(RU):

• allbirthdays - список всех дней рождений
• allbirthdayssorted - отсортированный список всех дней рождений
• nearestbirthday - информация о ближайшем дне рождения
• notificate - изменение состояния уведомлений
• all - информация о всех людях в базе
• find - поиск по ключевому слову
• start - начало работы

P.S. (All passwords and tokens that were revealed in early commits have already been reset or changed (I didn't think I would want to put the source code into an public repository))