Which IDE Should I use for C++ on Windows? [closed]

Question

Which IDE for C++ should I use on Windows?

Is there an IDE with support for editing over SSH on a GNU/Linux server?

I have very big C++ project without docs and editing it with text editor very difficult =(

Answer 1

On Windows, it's hard to beat the freely available Visual Studio Express.

A viable alternative would be the Qt Creator, which is lightweight and comes with the completely awesome Qt library.

Answer 2

Eclipse is very powerful editor for both C++ and many other languages. It sounds like you're looking to develop from a Windows system for Linux?

WinSCP will make it possible for you edit files via SSH.

If your project is being stored in CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, et al--Eclipse has plugins to integrate with these as well...

Answer 3

On Windows I prefer:

Visual Studio + WinSCP

Answer 4

Have a look at Netbeans 6.8, specifically the Remote Development section:

Use the Development Host Manager in the C/C++ Options windows to define remote hosts. You can then use development tools on those hosts to build and run projects from your client system. Benefit from faster synchronization with the remote host.

I have been very happy using Netbeans remote debugging for a PHP project. Just configure it and on run it will to automatically ssh files to the remote server.

Alternatively, Visual Studio offers arguably the best C++ editor for windows C++ development, and you can script it to upload the files to a linux server.

Finally, you may want to look into Eclipse CDT as well.