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> the variables highlights and the "Command-Click" to reach a definition make the experience superior to Visual Studio.

Seriously ? There may be reasons to think Visual Studio is an inferior product, these are not among them.

Visual Studio has an extension engine, you can download many extensions for free. Go to Tools > Extension Manager and browse away. There's one called Productivity Power Tools that we just install by default.

Also, XCode has a nice feature where you can switch between .h and .c files with CMD+Up. This is missing from VS, but you can add a macro and map it to a key, for me it's ALT+O. See here:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2223/Switch-between-Head...

not to mention ctrl+click does the same in visual studio with productivity power tools plugin.

He mentioned just for code browsing so don't panic. Nobody in their right mind would think XCode compares to Visual Studio. I mean it's 2012 and there is still no refactoring support.

Can you refactor c++ code in visual studio?

Yes. http://www.wholetomato.com/

Thanks for the link. It's a shame that functionality isn't built into VS (especially when it costs half as much as VS pro).

Correction: There is refactoring support in Xcode. But it is quite bad.

Xcode supports Rename, Extract, Create Superclass, Move Up, Move Down, Encapsulate. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/ToolsL...

I took a look at Whole Tomato: http://www.wholetomato.com/products/featureRefactoring.asp

A couple of those features Xcode implements using code completion. It looks like Whole Tomato may be slightly better, but your comment is clearly wrong.

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