Which IDE

[Some Clown]

Greetings - Just a quick question that I suspect is a bit off topic, but
nonetheless I feel that this is where I'll get the most unbiased answer. I
am currently using Visual C++ 6.0 (Studio Professional) to learn on, and
I've heard that in addition to being out of date, it's just plain bad in a
lot of areas. I've thought about upgrading to .NET, and I've also thought
about Borland. I'm just curious what others here use for an IDE and what
recommendations anyone may have.

Thanks in advance,
Some Clown

 

[gabriel]

I use the .NET IDE and love it.

If your question is Windows-only related, please ask it in comp.os.mw-
windows.programmer.win32. You'll get more help than here.

 

[Jeff Schwab]

Greetings - Just a quick question that I suspect is a bit off topic, but
nonetheless I feel that this is where I'll get the most unbiased answer. I
am currently using Visual C++ 6.0 (Studio Professional) to learn on, and
I've heard that in addition to being out of date, it's just plain bad in a
lot of areas. I've thought about upgrading to .NET, and I've also thought
about Borland. I'm just curious what others here use for an IDE and what
recommendations anyone may have.

XEmacs, with GCC. Even when I was using Windows.

 

[John Harrison]

Greetings - Just a quick question that I suspect is a bit off topic, but
nonetheless I feel that this is where I'll get the most unbiased answer. I
am currently using Visual C++ 6.0 (Studio Professional) to learn on, and
I've heard that in addition to being out of date, it's just plain bad in a
lot of areas. I've thought about upgrading to .NET, and I've also thought
about Borland. I'm just curious what others here use for an IDE and what
recommendations anyone may have.

Thanks in advance,
Some Clown

I've not heard many bad things about the IDE, in particular most people love
the debugger, which must one on the most important tools you use.

But the compiler that comes with it is outdated and even plain bad. Maybe
you're confusing comments about the compiler with comments about the IDE.

john

 

[Carl Ribbegaardh]

I really like VS.Net, but VS6 is very good too.
You might want to take a look at an addin that may help you even further,
Visual Assist. Especially the previous versions since they are avaliable for
free from the developers site.
http://www.wholetomato.com/x/products/features.html

There's a good free IDE with intellisense called DevC++ from Bloodshed which
is really good too. It uses the mingw compiler.

I think it's interesting to use more than one compiler for a project. I
definitely wouldn't stop using visual studio 6 for good.

/Carl

 

[Patrik Stellmann]

At work we upgraded from 6.0 to 7.0 and then to 7.1. The IDE of 7.0/7.1
is more customizable and has some nice features.
IMHO 7.0 should have never been released since the compiler is that
buggy that we couldn't compile a single of our programs with it -
especially any kind of templates caused problems.
The major advantage 7.1 over 6.0 is the much faster compiler (factor 2-3
for our software) and it is also handling templates in a better way
though it still doesn't support all features of C++ (i.e. something like
int x = MyTemplateFunction<int>()).