Licensing costs, licensing costs, and the fact that you often don't need to go through corporate approvals to download VSCode and the C# extension particularly

Licensing costs, licensing costs, and the fact that you often don't need to go through corporate approvals to download VSCode and the C# extension particularly if you are an employee who isn't nominally a "software developer". VSCode with the C# extension is the preferred C# development environment of corporate shadow IT.