What is the use of autofac.webapi2 in Azure Bot Framework integration with Cosmos DB

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I was going through this MSDN documentation for Integration of Cosmos DB with our Azure Chat Bot. Here is the link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-state-azure-cosmosdb?view=azure-bot-service-3.0

They have told to install the NuGet package called autofac.webapi2. But I am not getting the actual reason to use it in Azure Chat Bot. No documentation is provided for the same.

With its name autofac.webapi2 I guess it has WebApi features, but the Bot Framework is in .Net Core.

If any one could tell what is it for would be a great help to me.

Thanks.

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I can't speak to why that specific package is mentioned in that documentation; it isn't needed for the sample code. If you can add Cosmos to your bot without compile errors, I wouldn't worry about it. Eventually, Visual Studio will let you know if you need it. Here's the autofac.webapi documentation, if you want it.

That being said, you should not be developing or expanding v3 bots right now. It's been deprecated. If your v3 is currently working, it will continue to work. However I cannot express enough that if you are putting any semi-significant amount of effort towards updating/expanding/changing your v3 bot, you'd be better off spending that time migrating to v4.