I’m evaluating Visual Studio productivity addons for my development team, which includes some folks who are very new to C# and some folks who are very experienced. We don’t use VB.NET. I personally like ReSharper, but before I suggest something that I personally like, I would like some opinions for and reasoning behind using a different addon.
Given the choice between ReSharper, CodeRush, and Visual Assist, which one did you choose and why?
For discussion, do you run more than one addon at a time? Or one not on this list? What are your thoughts on these addons?
I downloaded both resharper and coderush trials. Initially I liked coderush a bit better. It seems a bit more polished and a bit more stable. But eventually I did go with resharper. Mainly because of the unit testing integration.
I don’t really see why you have to choose for your development team though. In my last company everyone used the tools they liked. We all used VS 2005 and 2008(depending on the project) and svn for versioning as long as everyone used the same coding standards we didn’t have much problems. Standardizing is good up to a point but it might be a good idea to give your developers some choice in what tools they want to use.