   Best C++ App?
  Whats the best application to use for developing C++? Even if it costs money, I'm willing to buy it if it's good.   
  Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005   ;  Visual Studio 2005.   ;  Please refrain yourself from asking about "the best"...  You will get many opinions that will end up making your brain explode.Define best.  Great debugger?  Easy and light-weight?  What?   ;  Visual Studio 2005.It's free too.   ;  I'm sure if you want to spend money that Visual Studio is good.  I however have tried the free express edition of Visual C++ and, unlike most, disliked it.  It was slow and almost a pain for me to use.  I prefer to stick to simple ol' Dev-C++, which is also free.  Its so much faster and simpler so that I've found myself more productive with it.  On the other hand, maybe if I became proficient with the tools VC++ offers, I'd see the advantage of it. ;)   ;  I like to develope in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, but I find it usefull to use several different compilers to test the final builds of whatever I'm working on.Borland and GCC compilers offest MS's nicely, and are free to boot.   ;  Except dev-cpp dosen't have workspaces for when you get to bigger, multiple part projects. Code::Blocks would probably work for you, unless there is a way to get multiple compilers in VS that I don't know about.   ;  For me, it is Code::Blocks (nightly build), it is very lightweight compared to Visual Studio, good support for mulitple compilers (which I need). However, Visual Studio definitely ranks as one of the best IDEs around thanks to its debugger and editor (which are better then Code::Blocks at present).   ;  Try out Code::Blocks and Visual C++ 2005 Express. Both free.   