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Can anyone point me to a good C++ IDE?
My only requirements are it should be free and it should not be code blocks

Thanks

Eclipse?
Visual Studio? http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/e ... ss-desktop
Yes there is a free version, and yes it works perfectly for C++ as well.

Need more? There is tons, but you should specify more what you need.

Visual Studio is the best and is the industry standard. However, if you do use VS, you have to be aware that there are two versions of C++ on it. One is ANSI C++, and the other is C++/CLI. ANSI C++ is regular, standardized, compiled C++. C++/CLI is C++ running in .NET with custom .NET extensions. For game development, you most likely want ANSI C++.

I recommend VS as well. Nothing compares.

VS all the way.

Personally I'm done with Visual Studio after using it for a few years. I'm not ever going back ( unless I really have too ). Visual Studio ( Express ) do come with a ton of bloatware that I'm just not that interested in nor can I decline the installation on my computer for some cosmic reason. I'll give VS (E) the satisfaction of having the most advanced code-completion and syntax-highlighter but other IDE's offers more interesting tools as compensation ( nothing that can't be added as a plugin granted ).


I could recommend Code::Blocks or CodeLite, which is two IDE's I really recommend! I personally favor CodeLite over C::B due to aesthetics. Using CodeLite have also brought me closer to MinGW and GCC as well as giving me insight on compiler flags and linker flags.

Granted, VS does dull quite a bit when working with C++. It really shines above all else when working in .NET. When working with ANSI C++, it drops it down to just a good IDE, since you lose about 75% of code completion outside of .NET among other reasons.

Jackolantern wrote:Granted, VS does dull quite a bit when working with C++. It really shines above all else when working in .NET. When working with ANSI C++, it drops it down to just a good IDE, since you lose about 75% of code completion outside of .NET among other reasons.

No, yes VS is a great IDE in a lot of ways, but Microsoft has a tendency to sneak in it's own standard and keywords into the mix, which I do not like.
Besides the Intellisense in C++ is still great compared to others out there.

Qunox wrote:

Jackolantern wrote:Granted, VS does dull quite a bit when working with C++. It really shines above all else when working in .NET. When working with ANSI C++, it drops it down to just a good IDE, since you lose about 75% of code completion outside of .NET among other reasons.

No, yes VS is a great IDE in a lot of ways, but Microsoft has a tendency to sneak in it's own standard and keywords into the mix, which I do not like.
Besides the Intellisense in C++ is still great compared to others out there.

My understanding was that provided you didn't use C++/CLI (which is all .NET all the time) and stuck with ANSI C++, most of the Microsoft stuff was in MFC, which could be used or not. I didn't think they had a lot of their own language features in the "true" favor of C++. However, I am not a big C++ user, so I could be very wrong. I know it isn't supposed to have custom Microsoft-only stuff in it lol.

Jackolantern wrote:

Qunox wrote:

Jackolantern wrote:Granted, VS does dull quite a bit when working with C++. It really shines above all else when working in .NET. When working with ANSI C++, it drops it down to just a good IDE, since you lose about 75% of code completion outside of .NET among other reasons.

No, yes VS is a great IDE in a lot of ways, but Microsoft has a tendency to sneak in it's own standard and keywords into the mix, which I do not like.
Besides the Intellisense in C++ is still great compared to others out there.

My understanding was that provided you didn't use C++/CLI (which is all .NET all the time) and stuck with ANSI C++, most of the Microsoft stuff was in MFC, which could be used or not. I didn't think they had a lot of their own language features in the "true" favor of C++. However, I am not a big C++ user, so I could be very wrong. I know it isn't supposed to have custom Microsoft-only stuff in it lol.

In my experience Microsoft highlights a lot of C++/CLI keywords even when doing fully blown ANSI C++ coding, such as the "event"-keyword. It confused me a lot in the beginning and seeing as it's a registered keyword I can't use it without using C++/CLI so my variables couldn't be named event, just to name 1 out of many examples.

I'v heard the PRO version is WAY better in the whole C++/CLI mixing with ANSI C++ and installation bloadware problems the express versions have, though I can't really afford it.