feat(project): update to latest best practices, support sbyte and byte

.config/dotnet-tools.json

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+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "isRoot": true,
+  "tools": {
+    "dotnet-outdated-tool": {
+      "version": "4.6.0",
+      "commands": [
+        "dotnet-outdated"
+      ]
+    },
+    "dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool": {
+      "version": "5.2.1",
+      "commands": [
+        "reportgenerator"
+      ]
+    },
+    "roslynator.dotnet.cli": {
+      "version": "0.8.3",
+      "commands": [
+        "roslynator"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}

.github/dependabot.yml

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+# To get started with Dependabot version updates, you'll need to specify which
+# package ecosystems to update and where the package manifests are located.
+# Please see the documentation for all configuration options:
+# https://docs.github.com/github/administering-a-repository/configuration-options-for-dependency-updates
+
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "nuget"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+  - package-ecosystem: "npm"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"

.github/workflows/publish.yml

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+# Inspired by https://www.jamescroft.co.uk/how-to-build-publish-nuget-packages-with-github-actions/
+name: Publish
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    name: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v4
+      with:
+        dotnet-version: | 
+          8.0.x
+    - name: Restore
+      run: dotnet restore
+    - name: Build Release
+      run: dotnet build -tl -c Release
+    - name: Pack
+      run: dotnet pack --configuration Release
+    - name: Publish Nuget Package
+      run: dotnet nuget push **/*.nupkg --api-key ${{secrets.NUGET_API_KEY}} --source 'https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json'

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+# Inspired by https://github.com/semantic-release/github/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml
+name: Release
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  quality:
+    name: quality
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v4
+      with:
+        dotnet-version: | 
+          8.0.x
+    - name: Restore
+      run: dotnet restore
+    - name: Unit Tests
+      run: dotnet test
+    - name: Build Release
+      run: dotnet build -tl -c Release
+  release:
+    needs: quality
+    permissions:
+      contents: write # to be able to publish a GitHub release
+      issues: write # to be able to comment on released issues
+      pull-requests: write # to be able to comment on released pull requests
+      id-token: write # to enable use of OIDC for npm provenance
+    name: release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          cache: npm
+          node-version: lts/*
+      - run: npm ci
+      - run: npm install --no-save semantic-release @semantic-release/commit-analyzer @semantic-release/release-notes-generator @semantic-release/changelog @semantic-release/github @semantic-release/npm @semantic-release/git semantic-release-replace-plugin semantic-release-presets
+      - run: npx semantic-release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SEMANTIC_RELEASE_BOT_NPM_TOKEN }}
+          TEAMS_WEBHOOK_DISABLED: true