Best C IDE or Editor for Windows

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What is the best C   IDE or editor for using on Windows  I use Notepad    but am missing IntelliSense from Visual Studio

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My favorite IDE was good old msdev exe  a k a   Microsoft Development Studio  a k a   Microsoft Visual C   6  It was the last version of Visual C   that didn t require me to get new hardware just to run it   However  the compiler wasn t standard-compliant  Not even remotely

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The question says specifically IDE so I am guessing thats what you want  In that case  the main options are Visual Studio and Eclipse CDT as stated above  Of those  I personally prefer Eclipse  However  don t necessarily limit yourself to an IDE  I prefer to use vim as my editor and WinDbg as my debugger  For compilation  your project will probably dictate this  I currently use NMAke on the command line

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The Eclipse CDT works well for me  It supports MinGW and Cygwin as targets  It also integrates well with CVS and Subversion   The latest build  Ganymede  is available here

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Emacs   Xemacs works fine under Windows   For using it as an IDE  I recommend running it under Cygwin

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notepad   or codeblocks for large projects

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Ultimate   if you want to program for both Linux and C   also you have the choice to choose your compiler

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I m a bit surprised because nobody has mentioned Codeblocks  http   codeblocks org I think it is probably one of the best IDE s for C    It is specially useful if you do multiplatform programming  since it is available for Linux  Mac and Windows  and it uses the same project files for all versions  It works perfectly with mingw  allowing you to even perform cross-compiling  It also directly supports wxWidgets visual development

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I personally like Visual Studio combined with a third party add-in such as Visual Assist  http   www wholetomato com    I ve tried a few of the others and always ended up back with Visual Studio  Plus  Visual Studio is a widely used product in development industries  so having experience using it can only be a plus

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With Intellisense  code folding  edit and continue  and a whole host of other features  Visual Studio is certainly the best IDE   However  for simple code editing  I often use UltraEdit   It has some great features not found in Visual Studio   One surprisingly useful feature is being able to select a column in the editor   You can find and replace within the column  useful for tabs vs  spaces wars     delete the column  etc

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I prefer to use Microsoft Visual C   express on windows   Though the 2008 ide is fine  the 2005 express has better support for many of the open projects which you might want to participate in   It s a pain to compile Firefox or a half life 2 mod on 2008   Also as a general tip when looking for software  I like to search wikipedia for  comparison of    In this case you would search comparison of Integrated Development Environments   Hope that was helpful

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I ve found the latest release of NetBeans  which includes C C   support  to be excellent   http   www netbeans org features cpp index html

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I have used Netbeans for java  and it works great  Not sure how it works with C    though

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I ve found the latest release of NetBeans  which includes C C   support  to be excellent   http   www netbeans org features cpp index html

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vi or gvim if you don t like terminals

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There are the free  Express  versions of Visual Studio   Given that you like Visual Studio and that the  Express  editions are free  there is no reason to use any other editor

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QT and NetBeans are the best cpp IDE s that I ve ever used

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VIsual studio is by far the best IDE but you can also take a look at Code  Blocks

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Use Visual Studio 2010  You can get the full version free with DreamSpark

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Here s another vote for Visual Studio   The debugger and Intellisense are definitely it s hallmarks   While other IDE s offer code-completion  I ve often found them to be somewhat sluggish in this area for some reason  sluggish being a reference to the speed at which code-completion occurs and offers selections      Other than VS  NetBeans is a good polished IDE and is updated on a very regular cycle

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Dev-C   is a complete stand alone debugger compiler and linker  and also offers  IntelliSense   If you want to break away from VS  that also includes VS express  i suggest using this tool

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Visual Studio BUT     Go get ReSharper plugin from http   www jetbrains com resharper index html  I m a Java developer who uses IntelliJ and ReSharper gives a lot of the IntelliJ functionality to Visual Studio

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SlickEdit is very cool  and does support something like intellisense  At my current company I now use Visual Studio  and I ve mostly gotten used to it - but there are still some SlickEdit features I miss

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M  VS2008 is a better IDE for this

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I think the debugger in Visual Studio  Express  is the killer thing that prevents me from using another IDE

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vi or gvim if you don t like terminals

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I m a bit surprised because nobody has mentioned Codeblocks  http   codeblocks org I think it is probably one of the best IDE s for C    It is specially useful if you do multiplatform programming  since it is available for Linux  Mac and Windows  and it uses the same project files for all versions  It works perfectly with mingw  allowing you to even perform cross-compiling  It also directly supports wxWidgets visual development

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The Eclipse CDT works well for me  It supports MinGW and Cygwin as targets  It also integrates well with CVS and Subversion   The latest build  Ganymede  is available here

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vi or gvim if you don t like terminals

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personally i dont like microsoft      I hate to admit that visual studio is the best IDE i ever use     Netbeans is gud but drasticaly slow    other free IDEs are useless   so people try to stick with VS

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Dev-C   is a complete stand alone debugger compiler and linker  and also offers  IntelliSense   If you want to break away from VS  that also includes VS express  i suggest using this tool

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There are some features in an IDE that are so transformative that you don t know how you lived without them   Integrated help was one   IntelliSense-like functionality was another   VS 6 0 s Debug and Continue was absolutely killer   Visual Studio kicked butt for quite a while   Not bad  given the awful NeXTstep rip-off it all started as    Or is it that memories of NeXTstep has faded until VS seems okay    Sure  there are much better EDITORS that VS  but as a complete package for Win32 development nothing seems to come close   There are free Express editions now  but they seem pretty crippled   I am quite enjoying Eclipse under Linux  and derivatives of it on Windows used in some FPGA vendor toolchains    I -really- don t like the lack of integrated MSDN-style help  though   I think it s basically down to those two choices

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VIsual studio is by far the best IDE but you can also take a look at Code  Blocks

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I think it s largely a matter of taste  but I would recommend begginers to stick to a pure editor  vi  emacs     instead of a full fledged IDE so they can figure out the whole toolchain that modern IDEs hide   Just for the record  my weapon of choice is Emacs

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There are the free  Express  versions of Visual Studio   Given that you like Visual Studio and that the  Express  editions are free  there is no reason to use any other editor

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I prefer to use Microsoft Visual C   express on windows   Though the 2008 ide is fine  the 2005 express has better support for many of the open projects which you might want to participate in   It s a pain to compile Firefox or a half life 2 mod on 2008   Also as a general tip when looking for software  I like to search wikipedia for  comparison of    In this case you would search comparison of Integrated Development Environments   Hope that was helpful

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I prefer to use Microsoft Visual C   express on windows   Though the 2008 ide is fine  the 2005 express has better support for many of the open projects which you might want to participate in   It s a pain to compile Firefox or a half life 2 mod on 2008   Also as a general tip when looking for software  I like to search wikipedia for  comparison of    In this case you would search comparison of Integrated Development Environments   Hope that was helpful

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Personally  I have found Bloodshed s Dev-C   to be very good  However  I do not recall an update in a very long time  I have  because of this  switched over to NetBeans for everything

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I personally like Visual Studio combined with a third party add-in such as Visual Assist  http   www wholetomato com    I ve tried a few of the others and always ended up back with Visual Studio  Plus  Visual Studio is a widely used product in development industries  so having experience using it can only be a plus

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If you are interested in doing Qt development  then Qt Creator works fine and is free

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Um  that s because Visual Studio is the best IDE   Come back to the darkside

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Um  that s because Visual Studio is the best IDE   Come back to the darkside

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It looks like you did not mention Ultimate   iDE  It is quite fast  It is not perfect as Visual Studio but it has several useful features such as function list  it shows which function you are in searches  multiple releases  package system  a gui designer a faster container library  Code completion

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I think it s largely a matter of taste  but I would recommend begginers to stick to a pure editor  vi  emacs     instead of a full fledged IDE so they can figure out the whole toolchain that modern IDEs hide   Just for the record  my weapon of choice is Emacs

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The Zeus editor has support for C C   and it also has a form of intellisensing   It does its intellisensing using the tags information produced by ctags   alt text http   www zeusedit com images  lookmain jpg

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SlickEdit is very cool  and does support something like intellisense  At my current company I now use Visual Studio  and I ve mostly gotten used to it - but there are still some SlickEdit features I miss

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Ultimate   if you want to program for both Linux and C   also you have the choice to choose your compiler

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Visual studio is great  but there are few tricks you can enhance it with  SonicFileFinder is one - helps you to search source files by partial match  You can map solution-tree to Alt 1  partial filename search to alt 2  and properties-window to alt 3  These are the three most used windows    Another great tool that is ofter misunderstood is ctrl shift F shortcut for searching file contents  People dont use because it s so slow  but my advice is - deal with it  Searching  the whole solution  or even all files in project folder  is only slow the first time you use it  Consequitive searches are as fast as jump-to-definition-feature

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As a complete all-in one package  Visual Studio 2008 is the best IDE for C   development with Windows

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I would recommend C  Builder  from Embarcadero  for C   work and there is also a free version available   If you prefer Visual Studio  download one of free express editions

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vi or gvim if you don t like terminals

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Um  that s because Visual Studio is the best IDE   Come back to the darkside

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Visual studio is the most up to date and probably  best  free ide  Dev C   is a little dated  and mingw doesn t compile most of boost   except regex   Most of the other compilers are dated and fading  like mars and borland  But you can use whatever you like

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How about CodeBlocks  i find it so fine with me  especially the new 10 05 version

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As a complete all-in one package  Visual Studio 2008 is the best IDE for C   development with Windows

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I personally like Visual Studio combined with a third party add-in such as Visual Assist  http   www wholetomato com    I ve tried a few of the others and always ended up back with Visual Studio  Plus  Visual Studio is a widely used product in development industries  so having experience using it can only be a plus

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I would recommend C  Builder  from Embarcadero  for C   work and there is also a free version available   If you prefer Visual Studio  download one of free express editions

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Dev C   is also a nice IDE  It s not so user friendly  but it s usefull

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I vote for Visual Studio  but it seems that C   is treated like second class citizen  not the compiler and stuff but IDE support  compared to  NET languages like C   but hopefully MS will do something about it by the next version of Visual Studio  new standard is coming and they promised that 10 should be new 6

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QT and NetBeans are the best cpp IDE s that I ve ever used

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There are some features in an IDE that are so transformative that you don t know how you lived without them   Integrated help was one   IntelliSense-like functionality was another   VS 6 0 s Debug and Continue was absolutely killer   Visual Studio kicked butt for quite a while   Not bad  given the awful NeXTstep rip-off it all started as    Or is it that memories of NeXTstep has faded until VS seems okay    Sure  there are much better EDITORS that VS  but as a complete package for Win32 development nothing seems to come close   There are free Express editions now  but they seem pretty crippled   I am quite enjoying Eclipse under Linux  and derivatives of it on Windows used in some FPGA vendor toolchains    I -really- don t like the lack of integrated MSDN-style help  though   I think it s basically down to those two choices

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There are the free  Express  versions of Visual Studio   Given that you like Visual Studio and that the  Express  editions are free  there is no reason to use any other editor

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I vote for Visual Studio  but it seems that C   is treated like second class citizen  not the compiler and stuff but IDE support  compared to  NET languages like C   but hopefully MS will do something about it by the next version of Visual Studio  new standard is coming and they promised that 10 should be new 6

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Um  that s because Visual Studio is the best IDE   Come back to the darkside

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Dev-C   is a complete stand alone debugger compiler and linker  and also offers  IntelliSense   If you want to break away from VS  that also includes VS express  i suggest using this tool

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The Eclipse CDT works well for me  It supports MinGW and Cygwin as targets  It also integrates well with CVS and Subversion   The latest build  Ganymede  is available here

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It looks like you did not mention Ultimate   iDE  It is quite fast  It is not perfect as Visual Studio but it has several useful features such as function list  it shows which function you are in searches  multiple releases  package system  a gui designer a faster container library  Code completion

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There are some features in an IDE that are so transformative that you don t know how you lived without them   Integrated help was one   IntelliSense-like functionality was another   VS 6 0 s Debug and Continue was absolutely killer   Visual Studio kicked butt for quite a while   Not bad  given the awful NeXTstep rip-off it all started as    Or is it that memories of NeXTstep has faded until VS seems okay    Sure  there are much better EDITORS that VS  but as a complete package for Win32 development nothing seems to come close   There are free Express editions now  but they seem pretty crippled   I am quite enjoying Eclipse under Linux  and derivatives of it on Windows used in some FPGA vendor toolchains    I -really- don t like the lack of integrated MSDN-style help  though   I think it s basically down to those two choices

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Personally  I have found Bloodshed s Dev-C   to be very good  However  I do not recall an update in a very long time  I have  because of this  switched over to NetBeans for everything

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I ve found the latest release of NetBeans  which includes C C   support  to be excellent   http   www netbeans org features cpp index html

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One that hasn t been mentioned is CodeLite  a powerful open-source  cross platform IDE  It has code completion amongst other features

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The Zeus editor has support for C C   and it also has a form of intellisensing   It does its intellisensing using the tags information produced by ctags   alt text http   www zeusedit com images  lookmain jpg

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SlickEdit is very cool  and does support something like intellisense  At my current company I now use Visual Studio  and I ve mostly gotten used to it - but there are still some SlickEdit features I miss

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The Zeus editor has support for C C   and it also has a form of intellisensing   It does its intellisensing using the tags information produced by ctags   alt text http   www zeusedit com images  lookmain jpg

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I would recommend C  Builder  from Embarcadero  for C   work and there is also a free version available   If you prefer Visual Studio  download one of free express editions

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I will quote myself from this question  https   stackoverflow com questions 780837 what-is-a-good-linux-ide-for-code-completion 917854 917854     Someone already said this before me    but QtCreator is really good for Qt4   development       Not only it has a really good code   completion support  It also knows a   little more about the code and what to   complete then I thought I needed  For   example it knows about slots signals    This means that connecting   slots signals via code is much easier   then before       The code editing is really nice  I   remember that when refactoring code     a few variables starting with   underscore  it remembered the cursor   position between lines and this made   the refactoring much easier  The code   indentation is smart enough to not get   in my way  KDevelop was configurable    but QtCreator learns how I code  At   least it feels like it does        Then there are the cool key   combinations  Most of the   functionality of the IDE can be   accessed using shortcuts  The    control k  thingie is a nice thing    which some command line users would   like  but I am more GUI oriented  I   don t use it       What I really like  is the split   window command  Yes  KDevelop3 does   it  but not as nice as QtCreator  My   favorite is control e 3 which I use to   display the header and implementations   of my classes  Once again  the   navigation here is the best I have   seen  control e o        It also has a nice SCM integration  I   usually use SVN  and quite frankly   it s not as good as I need  no   shortcut to diff the project  no diff   to commit the whole project  no option   to commit several files       I also don t like the  total   integration of external tools   I   still like the external QtAssistant -   control tab is easier to read large   articles  But     when you define a   QString s  and 3 lines bellow you want   to read the interface of QString  you   put your cursor on  s  and press F1 -   the assistant comes as a sidebar with   QString s documentation  A huge   advantage       Want to follow a definition  F2 to the   help  F4  Changes   header implementation  yes  eclipse   does this better           The debugger is good  It s not as good   as VisualStudio but     it has support   for Qt4 internals  you can see the   value of QString and QList         I can continue    but IMHO you will   need to give it a second and third   try  It really is a good product  Not   as flexible as Eclipse  hi   ryansstack   but it s a really small    fast and young project  I stopped   developing QDevelop because I really   found what I was looking for       ps  yes  I mean stopped developing   QDevelop  I was in the development   team    My response is for Qt4 development only  Be warned

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I think the anwser to this question depends on following question  Do you want to develop cross-platform applications   If the anwser to this question is a clear YES  than you should start right away with some IDE that support cross-platform compilers like gcc mingw     Personally ive tried CodeBlocks and QtCreator beside VS    If developing cross-platform software using Qt  surely QtCreator is the best choice  Since QtCreator is still a quite new IDE  it still has some bugs    for example it s  intelli-sense  doesnt support namespace aliaces yet    but i think it will evolve pretty fast  to a very good and complete IDE  Codeblocks is a quite  small  IDE  but has everything an IDE needs  Still its  Intelli-Sense   especially when dealing with meta-programming stuff like boost   and debugger is less powerful than VS s

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VIsual studio is by far the best IDE but you can also take a look at Code  Blocks

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I will quote myself from this question  https   stackoverflow com questions 780837 what-is-a-good-linux-ide-for-code-completion 917854 917854     Someone already said this before me    but QtCreator is really good for Qt4   development       Not only it has a really good code   completion support  It also knows a   little more about the code and what to   complete then I thought I needed  For   example it knows about slots signals    This means that connecting   slots signals via code is much easier   then before       The code editing is really nice  I   remember that when refactoring code     a few variables starting with   underscore  it remembered the cursor   position between lines and this made   the refactoring much easier  The code   indentation is smart enough to not get   in my way  KDevelop was configurable    but QtCreator learns how I code  At   least it feels like it does        Then there are the cool key   combinations  Most of the   functionality of the IDE can be   accessed using shortcuts  The    control k  thingie is a nice thing    which some command line users would   like  but I am more GUI oriented  I   don t use it       What I really like  is the split   window command  Yes  KDevelop3 does   it  but not as nice as QtCreator  My   favorite is control e 3 which I use to   display the header and implementations   of my classes  Once again  the   navigation here is the best I have   seen  control e o        It also has a nice SCM integration  I   usually use SVN  and quite frankly   it s not as good as I need  no   shortcut to diff the project  no diff   to commit the whole project  no option   to commit several files       I also don t like the  total   integration of external tools   I   still like the external QtAssistant -   control tab is easier to read large   articles  But     when you define a   QString s  and 3 lines bellow you want   to read the interface of QString  you   put your cursor on  s  and press F1 -   the assistant comes as a sidebar with   QString s documentation  A huge   advantage       Want to follow a definition  F2 to the   help  F4  Changes   header implementation  yes  eclipse   does this better           The debugger is good  It s not as good   as VisualStudio but     it has support   for Qt4 internals  you can see the   value of QString and QList         I can continue    but IMHO you will   need to give it a second and third   try  It really is a good product  Not   as flexible as Eclipse  hi   ryansstack   but it s a really small    fast and young project  I stopped   developing QDevelop because I really   found what I was looking for       ps  yes  I mean stopped developing   QDevelop  I was in the development   team    My response is for Qt4 development only  Be warned

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My favorite IDE was good old msdev exe  a k a   Microsoft Development Studio  a k a   Microsoft Visual C   6  It was the last version of Visual C   that didn t require me to get new hardware just to run it   However  the compiler wasn t standard-compliant  Not even remotely

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I think the anwser to this question depends on following question  Do you want to develop cross-platform applications   If the anwser to this question is a clear YES  than you should start right away with some IDE that support cross-platform compilers like gcc mingw     Personally ive tried CodeBlocks and QtCreator beside VS    If developing cross-platform software using Qt  surely QtCreator is the best choice  Since QtCreator is still a quite new IDE  it still has some bugs    for example it s  intelli-sense  doesnt support namespace aliaces yet    but i think it will evolve pretty fast  to a very good and complete IDE  Codeblocks is a quite  small  IDE  but has everything an IDE needs  Still its  Intelli-Sense   especially when dealing with meta-programming stuff like boost   and debugger is less powerful than VS s

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There are some features in an IDE that are so transformative that you don t know how you lived without them   Integrated help was one   IntelliSense-like functionality was another   VS 6 0 s Debug and Continue was absolutely killer   Visual Studio kicked butt for quite a while   Not bad  given the awful NeXTstep rip-off it all started as    Or is it that memories of NeXTstep has faded until VS seems okay    Sure  there are much better EDITORS that VS  but as a complete package for Win32 development nothing seems to come close   There are free Express editions now  but they seem pretty crippled   I am quite enjoying Eclipse under Linux  and derivatives of it on Windows used in some FPGA vendor toolchains    I -really- don t like the lack of integrated MSDN-style help  though   I think it s basically down to those two choices

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As a complete all-in one package  Visual Studio 2008 is the best IDE for C   development with Windows

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Dev C   is also a nice IDE  It s not so user friendly  but it s usefull

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notepad   or codeblocks for large projects

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Visual Studio BUT     Go get ReSharper plugin from http   www jetbrains com resharper index html  I m a Java developer who uses IntelliJ and ReSharper gives a lot of the IntelliJ functionality to Visual Studio

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With Intellisense  code folding  edit and continue  and a whole host of other features  Visual Studio is certainly the best IDE   However  for simple code editing  I often use UltraEdit   It has some great features not found in Visual Studio   One surprisingly useful feature is being able to select a column in the editor   You can find and replace within the column  useful for tabs vs  spaces wars     delete the column  etc

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I have used Netbeans for java  and it works great  Not sure how it works with C    though

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I have used Netbeans for java  and it works great  Not sure how it works with C    though

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I personally like Visual Studio combined with a third party add-in such as Visual Assist  http   www wholetomato com    I ve tried a few of the others and always ended up back with Visual Studio  Plus  Visual Studio is a widely used product in development industries  so having experience using it can only be a plus

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Use Visual Studio 2010  You can get the full version free with DreamSpark

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Visual studio is the most up to date and probably  best  free ide  Dev C   is a little dated  and mingw doesn t compile most of boost   except regex   Most of the other compilers are dated and fading  like mars and borland  But you can use whatever you like

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personally i dont like microsoft      I hate to admit that visual studio is the best IDE i ever use     Netbeans is gud but drasticaly slow    other free IDEs are useless   so people try to stick with VS

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I think the debugger in Visual Studio  Express  is the killer thing that prevents me from using another IDE

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Visual Studio   Visual Assist X  http   www wholetomato com

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c   IDE for MSWindows 1-Visual Studio  2-CodeBlocks  nighitly build  others  devcpp  netbeans  eclips      just sucks  dont waste your time

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M  VS2008 is a better IDE for this

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c   IDE for MSWindows 1-Visual Studio  2-CodeBlocks  nighitly build  others  devcpp  netbeans  eclips      just sucks  dont waste your time

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I would recommend C  Builder  from Embarcadero  for C   work and there is also a free version available   If you prefer Visual Studio  download one of free express editions

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I think the debugger in Visual Studio  Express  is the killer thing that prevents me from using another IDE

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Visual studio is great  but there are few tricks you can enhance it with  SonicFileFinder is one - helps you to search source files by partial match  You can map solution-tree to Alt 1  partial filename search to alt 2  and properties-window to alt 3  These are the three most used windows    Another great tool that is ofter misunderstood is ctrl shift F shortcut for searching file contents  People dont use because it s so slow  but my advice is - deal with it  Searching  the whole solution  or even all files in project folder  is only slow the first time you use it  Consequitive searches are as fast as jump-to-definition-feature

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Dev-C   is a complete stand alone debugger compiler and linker  and also offers  IntelliSense   If you want to break away from VS  that also includes VS express  i suggest using this tool

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There are the free  Express  versions of Visual Studio   Given that you like Visual Studio and that the  Express  editions are free  there is no reason to use any other editor

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How about CodeBlocks  i find it so fine with me  especially the new 10 05 version

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I ve tried SlickEdit  Notepad    emacs  jEdit and Visual Studio  VS wins hands-down for Best Windows IDE    jEdit is probably the best GUI cross-platform editor almost-IDE  and emacs is probably the best terminal cross-platform editor almost-IDE  The advantage with using these is that when you jump to a Mac or Linux box  you know how they work    I tried Eclipse  but it ran like a no-legged dog it was so slow  so I didn t use it much  Maybe tech is better now  but eh

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Here s another vote for Visual Studio   The debugger and Intellisense are definitely it s hallmarks   While other IDE s offer code-completion  I ve often found them to be somewhat sluggish in this area for some reason  sluggish being a reference to the speed at which code-completion occurs and offers selections      Other than VS  NetBeans is a good polished IDE and is updated on a very regular cycle

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I ve found the latest release of NetBeans  which includes C C   support  to be excellent   http   www netbeans org features cpp index html

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I think the debugger in Visual Studio  Express  is the killer thing that prevents me from using another IDE

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The Zeus editor has support for C C   and it also has a form of intellisensing   It does its intellisensing using the tags information produced by ctags   alt text http   www zeusedit com images  lookmain jpg

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I ve tried SlickEdit  Notepad    emacs  jEdit and Visual Studio  VS wins hands-down for Best Windows IDE    jEdit is probably the best GUI cross-platform editor almost-IDE  and emacs is probably the best terminal cross-platform editor almost-IDE  The advantage with using these is that when you jump to a Mac or Linux box  you know how they work    I tried Eclipse  but it ran like a no-legged dog it was so slow  so I didn t use it much  Maybe tech is better now  but eh

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VIsual studio is by far the best IDE but you can also take a look at Code  Blocks

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As a complete all-in one package  Visual Studio 2008 is the best IDE for C   development with Windows

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I have used Netbeans for java  and it works great  Not sure how it works with C    though

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I prefer to use Microsoft Visual C   express on windows   Though the 2008 ide is fine  the 2005 express has better support for many of the open projects which you might want to participate in   It s a pain to compile Firefox or a half life 2 mod on 2008   Also as a general tip when looking for software  I like to search wikipedia for  comparison of    In this case you would search comparison of Integrated Development Environments   Hope that was helpful

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I vote for Visual Studio  but it seems that C   is treated like second class citizen  not the compiler and stuff but IDE support  compared to  NET languages like C   but hopefully MS will do something about it by the next version of Visual Studio  new standard is coming and they promised that 10 should be new 6

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One that hasn t been mentioned is CodeLite  a powerful open-source  cross platform IDE  It has code completion amongst other features

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If you are interested in doing Qt development  then Qt Creator works fine and is free

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Visual Studio   Visual Assist X  http   www wholetomato com

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I vote for Visual Studio  but it seems that C   is treated like second class citizen  not the compiler and stuff but IDE support  compared to  NET languages like C   but hopefully MS will do something about it by the next version of Visual Studio  new standard is coming and they promised that 10 should be new 6

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The question says specifically IDE so I am guessing thats what you want  In that case  the main options are Visual Studio and Eclipse CDT as stated above  Of those  I personally prefer Eclipse  However  don t necessarily limit yourself to an IDE  I prefer to use vim as my editor and WinDbg as my debugger  For compilation  your project will probably dictate this  I currently use NMAke on the command line

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SlickEdit is very cool  and does support something like intellisense  At my current company I now use Visual Studio  and I ve mostly gotten used to it - but there are still some SlickEdit features I miss

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Emacs   Xemacs works fine under Windows   For using it as an IDE  I recommend running it under Cygwin

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The Eclipse CDT works well for me  It supports MinGW and Cygwin as targets  It also integrates well with CVS and Subversion   The latest build  Ganymede  is available here

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