C Integrated Development Environment

[Huntondoom]

I was just wondering
what a good program is for C
something like Visual Studio for Vb.net
(I dont know the name of such Program O.O" )
I used Visual Studio for C# / C++ but that was total shit
so is there something better?

[ande]

What you are talking about is called an IDE, Integrated Development Environment. C# and VB.net is .net languages and there is mostly only one IDE and compiler for those languages, Microsoft's Visual Studio or their VB/C# Studio Express editions. When it comes to C and C++, there are a ton of IDE's and compilers.

Here is a couple of interesting links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compilers
http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/List_of_Integrated_Development_Environments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments

For C I would recommend CodeBlocks or Dev-C++, that is if you don't want to use Microsoft's Visual Studio, which is just fine if you learn to know it

[FuyuKitsune]

CodeBlocks is nice for C, I use it myself. It's multi-platform and can be made portable on Windows.

[iMorg]

If you are new to C I would recommend Code::Blocks, its my IDE of choice. If you ever plan on doing C or C++ software development as a profession I would get used to Visual C++.

Or you could go the simple way and use gcc as your compiler and vim or emacs as your editor. I like to switch from vim on windows and linux to emacs on bsd.

[Huntondoom]

If you are new to C I would recommend Code::Blocks, its my IDE of choice. If you ever plan on doing C or C++ software development as a profession I would get used to Visual C++.

Or you could go the simple way and use gcc as your compiler and vim or emacs as your editor. I like to switch from vim on windows and linux to emacs on bsd.

Im not really new to C, I know my basics its just Visual studio is acting like a dick when it comes to C

[iMorg]

Im not really knew to C, I know my basics its just Visual studio is acting like a dick when it comes to C

I think you have to specifically configure options in the compiler variables of vc++ to have it load the right libraries and compile as a c program rather than a c++.

[Tsar]

I use Visual Studio on Windows for C. It's okay, but I suggest you google a tutorial on setting it up and compiling/running a simple program first, otherwise you won't know what to do.

[ca0s]

I use Dev-C++ on windows. Kwrite + gcc on linux.

[Huntondoom]

and so another question

what I do like about Visual Studio is the Form Designer
I assume this is also include in Codeblock or Dev-C++

[ca0s]

The form designer I know of Visual Studio is for C++. With C, DevC has implemented the wxWidgets library:
http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/tutorials/devcpp.htm

[Kulverstukas]

Embarcadero RAD studio 2010
has Delphi and C/C++ compiler, uses same IDE for both - my IDE of choice.

[FuyuKitsune]

Codeblocks has wxWidget support built in but I haven't used it so I'm not sure how it works.

[Huntondoom]

so far so busy

fact: I hate Code Blocks, I miss Visual Studio T.T

[ande]

so far so busy

fact: I hate Code Blocks, I miss Visual Studio T.T

Visual Studio gives you lots of bad habits Seriously, there is so much going on behind the scenes that VS just does for you. But its a bad thing

[Huntondoom]

Visual Studio gives you lots of bad habits Seriously, there is so much going on behind the scenes that VS just does for you. But its a bad thing

I noticed, I miss that idea when you type a command, that you get a list of commands
I always could see what an object could do with that Command list
Now I have a hard to print out a string in the Console :S