Updated devcontainer configuration and CI configuration

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/anaconda:1-3
-
-# Copy environment.yml (if found) to a temp location so we update the environment. Also
-# copy "noop.txt" so the COPY instruction does not fail if no environment.yml exists.
-COPY environment.yml* .devcontainer/noop.txt /tmp/conda-tmp/
-RUN if [ -f "/tmp/conda-tmp/environment.yml" ]; then umask 0002 && /opt/conda/bin/conda env update -n base -f /tmp/conda-tmp/environment.yml; fi \
-    && rm -rf /tmp/conda-tmp
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/dotnet:1-9.0-bookworm
 
 # [Optional] Uncomment this section to install additional OS packages.
 # RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
 #     && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends <your-package-list-here>
+
+# [Optional] Uncomment this line to install global node packages.
+# RUN su vscode -c "source /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && npm install -g <your-package-here>" 2>&1