Resharper 4.0 vs Slick Edit. Which one is the best.

Question

Lets list their differences(strengths + weaknesses) and find out.

Answer 1

One of the comments posted with the Question is identical to my immediate thought: Resharper (much like Visual Assist) is a Visual Studio Add-in that extends the VS native editing capabilities, while Slick Edit is a standalone editor with compilation/linking rules engines that some use as an entire replacement for the VS IDE.

Answer 2

I suspect that the question may have intended to refer to Slick Edit Tools for Visual Studio, which is also a Visual Studio Add-In like ReSharper

Answer 3

If you are developing C# and your choices are SlickEdit or Resharper + Visual Studio, then Resharper is far and away the best editor. I have both. I love SlickEdit for my C and C++. But for C# and Java, it just can't compete against "next gen" tools like Resharper, IntelliJ or Eclipse. SlickEdit simply doesnt have good refactoring tools either in quality or in quantity. Resharper has over 100. Resharper is also faster. And Resharper is a plug in to Visual Studio.

I have not use the SlickEdit Core for Visual Studio, but assuming that its the "Core" from SlickEdit, its not going to be any better than the full priced tool.