Making sure that we're compiling with the dotnet 8 sdk, until I decid…

…e to upgrade to a newer version. dotnet 9 throws a bunch of weird compiler warnings about formatting which weren't thrown before. Like recommending against using 'var', which is nonsense.

.editorconfig

@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ dotnet_diagnostic.cs1998.severity = error
 # CS4014: Because this call is not awaited, execution of the current method continues before the call is completed
 dotnet_diagnostic.cs4014.severity = error
 
+# IDE0008 - Use explicit type instead of 'var'
+# - No idea why it is now recommending you to not use var anymore.  So disabling it.
+dotnet_diagnostic.IDE0008.severity = none
+
 # IDE0028: Simplify collection initialization
 # - Not a fan of the syntax, feels a little bit too terse
 dotnet_style_prefer_collection_expression = false

global.json

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/global",
+    "sdk": {
+        "version": "8.0.100",
+        "rollForward": "latestMinor"
+    }
+}