I made a service for this a while back:
https://github.com/MattMckenzy/Homehook
However, development of it has stopped in favor of v2, where I drop Chromecast support and instead focused on making a companion player service running on an htpc or rPi.
Let me know if you have any questions, I can try to help!
I'm a professional and hobbyist C# .NET dev and I recently made the switch to a full Linux environment at home. I've gotten a great workflow setup with just VSCode and some extensions. I've actually found some ways to improve my workflow with VSCode vs Visual Studio and I'm glad I made the switch. The only thing I really miss is the phenomenal diagnostics and profiling I would get with a full Visual Studio install, but I'm getting used to using cli dotnet tools to replace that as well.
If you're going the VSCode route, feel free to ask me more questions on useful extensions or workflow tweaks!