Last night I headed down to Chicago for the monthly Alt.NET meeting, which was at the ThoughtWorks office. Just briefly, that looks like a great place to work... they have a gorgeous office.
The meeting was mostly a smack down between ReSharper and CodeRush. I seemed to stand out early on because they first asked which people in the audience used which one. I think I was the only one in the audience that used neither... I am a Visual Studio purest. For one, I was never willing to fork out > $100 for a productivity package like that. For another... I like writing that much code by hand because I genuinely believe that it makes me think about my code and my architecture more.
Afterwards, I won a license to my choice of ReSharper, CodeRush or SqlPrompt. Based on the smack down (which was done Horse style thanks to my suggestion), I had to say that CodeRush looked much cooler, and from a usability standpoint, seemed to be the better choice. Hopefully I'll have my license in hand soon so I can test it out, and report on whether I think its worth the money, or whether it helps or hinders my code writing.
Out of the tools they gave away, the one they only showed briefly was SqlPrompt. From the brief demo, all I can say is wow. Intellisense in SQL Management Studio, or even Notepad? Are you kidding me? I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that... but once again... not sure I can justify the cost to myself.