So I've been using Visual Studio 2008 for my C++ development for a while now, however the insanely crappy intellisense has been bugging me for ages.
I'm looking for an alternative C++ IDE where the intellisense actually is reliable and doesn't vanish between the same variable, in the same scope, just on different lines. Any takers?
In the free world I suggest you to try:
For Code::Blocks you need the "Code completion" plugin for it, that came pre-installed with. It's options are under:
Settings->Plugin's Settings->Code completion
Also, as Dani suggested, you can try Visual Assist X, that's very nice for Visual Studio users.
Free? Qt Creator - it has great intellisense/code completion and the Qt framework itself is well worth a look.
The website states (among other features):
Personally, I would recommend you the newest Netbeans 6.8 beta which offers much more great C++ features.
I would recommend Visual Studio 6.0. Don't know what they smoked in between versions, or maybe they dream about replacing C++ with C# by hurting C++ developers with crappy intellisense, but as I recall VS 6.0 was perfect.