Gateway heartbeat works

example_bot/Program.cs

@@ -1,2 +1,13 @@
-// See https://aka.ms/new-console-template for more information
-Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
+using Discord.API;
+using Serilog;
+
+Log.Logger=new LoggerConfiguration()
+    .WriteTo.Console(Serilog.Events.LogEventLevel.Verbose)
+    .MinimumLevel.Verbose()
+    .CreateLogger();
+
+string api_key = File.ReadAllText("api_key.txt");
+
+DiscordClient client = new DiscordClient(api_key);
+
+Console.ReadLine();

example_bot/example_bot.csproj

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <ProjectReference Include="..\Discord.API\Discord.API.csproj" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="Serilog" Version="4.0.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Serilog.Sinks.Console" Version="6.0.0" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
     <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>