I\'m looking for an Integrated Development Environment for C++ that should run o

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I'm looking for an Integrated Development Environment for C++ that should run on Windows 8. The program should ideally support the following features:

Code completion/hinting
Indentation assistance
Syntax highlighting
Refactoring (ability to rename variables, classes, functions, etc. at the very least)
Code navigation (analogous to cntrl + clicking in Eclipse Indigo)

Additionally, the IDE should be standard-compliant, meaning that it does not knowingly and willfully violate the C++ standard (as Microsoft Visual Studio does).

At this time I cannot acquire products that are not free, but I am willing to accept answers that describe a relatively cheap (say, < $100) product.

Explanation / Answer

There is a C/C++ bundle for Netbeans.

I can verify that it has syntax highlighting, code completion, and code formatting/indentation assist.

While I haven't used the C++ bundle personally, I use the Java and PHP flavours on a daily basis, and I assume based on the existence of cntrl+click navigation and refactoring in both that they should also be present in the C++ bundle.

The only real downside I have found to Netbeans is that sometimes after a few hours it can become sluggish to the point of being unresponsive due to (what I assume is) a memory leak (at least on 64-bit Windows 7), at which time you need to kill the associated java.exe process to release the memory. This issue may have been fixed, though, as I have not experienced it in a few months.

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