Thread: C/C++ help needed.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good c and/or c++ IDE. I am trying to see if there is anything better or just as good as the Microsoft studio one.

Not many ide's can compete with visual studio.

I think you can use eclipse cdt but I will stick with my visual studio.

hmm well thanks guys, fyi I like blueJ for java.

sorry for doube post, so I just checked and my college doesnt offer the visual studio for free but it has a whole bunch of other crap wtf! lol

For my college, I had to be enrolled in an approved MIS/CIS course to be eligible for MSDNAA.

visual studio, make sure your university does not provide MSDN subscription access or MSDNAA (if it does, it likely includes visual studios), i say this specifically, because most of the time if you just ask around your university for visual studios, people do not know MSDN subscription provides it. So ask explicitly if you're provided msdn access (microsoft developer network subcription) or MSDNAA (academic MSDN subscription).


if your really desperate you could try eclipse. But its a POS. Builds are a pain (you have to manually write make and target files, rather than auto generating and editing). I got a lot of screwy shit with eclipse too, like crashing/unable-to-open source files sometimes, the stupid editor tap would crash, restarting eclipse would fix it sometimes... i mean come on, the ONE fucking thing the IDE is designed to do, it failed at! And its built on java evident by eclipses failure at handling internal IDE errors.

But nothing beats the debugging capabilities of MVS, period. If you've got large projects (500+ header and source files), dont screw around with chump shit roll with MVS, and save up if you have to, its worth it (you wont need ultimate though), esp if you have a .edu address, ms will give you a giant discount.


But dont waste your time on other IDE's, you'll pay the price in time spent debugging c/c++ code with shitty debuggers.


let me know if you get it, ill make and post a list of all the extensions i use. Save uber amounts of time, generate classes with litterally 2 words per class/member/function definitions, so you can write the outline for a class in under 30 seconds. etc.

ya i was trying to get eclipse running but im not having such good luck.

The one thing about MVS is i feel like i download a bunch of stuff I don't really use in the first place.

Damn, for students it's only a $105. That's a huge discount.