So I used Resharper for a long time and I really liked it. There were a few things I didn’t like, especially the time added to a project load. And every once in a while it would lock up. But the features I liked were very useful: Find all usages, simple keyboard shortcuts, code reformatting. But the two most useful things it did was 1) to but a bar along the right side of the screen with orange or red lines for were the code had problems, and 2) clean up the using statements.
I have been using CodeRush/Refactor Pro for about a month now and really like it as well. I wish it did some of the things that ReSharper did and I wished the refactoring worked more like ReSharper. But I like the polish a lot better and I like the way it shows how blocks of code are related. One of the best features I notices so far is the showing cyclonic complexity of each method. The code completion is a bit complicated and I haven’t spent enough time figuring it out. It is more flexible than ReSharpers.
Another thing I do not like about CodeRush is the subscription scheme they are switching to. I can see where they would need a continuous money stream to keep the business going. But how am I going to justify paying the CodeRush tax each year when I got the ReSharper upgrade for free?
So, I like both products. I tried running both at the same time in VS 2003 but after 15 minutes it locked up. The tend to step on each other a lot so I need to figure out how to get them to play nice together.