Visual Studio environment alternative

Question

I use Visual C++ (7.1 and 8.0) on huge C++ project. The solution contains thousands of files. Visual Assist helps in jumping to function and class definitions. The problem is that it sometimes becomes too slow. I just can't edit a single letter without delay.

Is there some alternative to this environment? I mean something that may read .sln and .vcproj files, use MSVC debugger, compile with MSVC compiler or even use IncrediBuild if necessary. I don't need any sophisticated features. It should be possible to find and open a file by name and jump to function/class definition from place where it is used.

May be Vim with some plugins? Or something else?

Answer 1

It seems there is no alternative to MS Visual studio. I've added separate HDD for source files and it works much better.

Answer 2

Currently i left Visual studio because c++ support just sucks (still using Visual studio 2013 but only for C# projects) i use NetBeans right now, and really enjoy the refactoring part. The visual C++ compiler support can be added using a free plugin (VCC4N - Visual C++ Compiler For NetBeans)

good luck