What can I use for good quality code coverage for C#/.NET?

Question

I wonder what options there are for .NET (or C# specifically) code coverage, especially in the lower priced segment?

I am not looking for recommendations, but for a comparison of products based on facts. I know the following:

• NCover
  • Seems to be very popular and looks quite good
  • Supports statement coverage and branch coverage
  • $480 for "NCover 3 Complete"
  • Older beta versions are available for free
• Visual Studio (2008 Pro) | (2005 Team System (Development, Test or Team Suite Editions))
  • Well, it's Microsoft so I'd expect it to work properly
  • Fully integrated into Visual Studio
  • At least $5,469
• PartCover - no further development (moved to OpenCover)
  • Open source
  • Supports statement coverage
• OpenCover - successor to PartCover
  • OpenSource
  • Supports branch and statement coverage
  • 32 and 64 bit support
  • Silverlight support
  • Background
  • Tutorial on The Code Project by the primary developer
  • No .NET Core support yet
• SD Test Coverage
  • Works with 32 and 64 bits, full C# 4.0
  • Handles both small and very large code bases
  • $250 for single user license
• JetBrains dotCover
  • $100 for Personal License. Free for user groups, open source projects, students and teachers.
  • Supports statement coverage
  • Silverlight support

• NCrunch

  • $159 for personal license
  • $289 for commercial seat license * Free during beta, to become commercial, pricing unknown future unknown.
  • Code coverage indicators in Visual Studio
  • Continuous (near real time) testing
  • Visual per-test code coverage
  • Performance metrics, parallel multi-core test execution

• NDepend

  • $410 for developer license
  • NDepend can import coverage data from NCover, DotCover, Visual Studio 2017; 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010 and 2008 Code Coverage files.
  • Dependency graph
  • Dependency structure matrix
  • Visualizing code metrics
  • Validating code rules

Answer 1

I use the version of NCover that comes with TestDriven.NET. It will allow you to easily right-click on your unit test class library, and hit Test With→Coverage, and it will pull up the report.