Curly Brace Placement

I've been writing code with curly braces for a dozen years or so, starting with C++ in college, then JavaScript for many, many years, and for the last few years, C#.  In all that time, I have been a fan of putting the opening curly brace on the same line as the declaration or control statement.  For example:

private void DoSomething() {
    // ...
    if (somecondition) {
        myval = true;
    }
    // ...
}

At work, though, I have been working on someone else's code, and I always try as much as possible change my coding style to match the existing code.  In this case, that means opening curly braces get their own line, like so:

private void DoSomething() 
{
    // ...
    if (somecondition) 
    {
        myval = true;
    }
    // ...
}

I find that I'm actually starting to prefer the "new line" option.  But I don't want to prefer it!  I guess maybe I'm stubborn.

I agree that it is easier to visually match opening and closing braces this way, but VS2008 does that for me anyway with clever highlighting.  Also, I don't like how much extra room is taken in my editor window.  I like whitespace, but this seems to put it in the wrong place for me.

Sigh.  What's a poor developer to do?

What's your preference and why?

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