NetBeans IDE 6.0 is now available for download at http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/final/. Select the C/C++ bundle, which includes the base IDE and C/C++ support. Installation on Solaris, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X is quick and simple.

You can create projects now using NetBeans IDE 6.0, and work with these projects in the next release of the Sun Studio IDE.

New features added to the C/C++ support in this release of NetBeans IDE 6.0 will be available in the Sun Studio IDE in SXDE 1/08 and Sun Studio Express 1/08, which will be released in January/February. These features include:

- Improvements in the Classes window, which lets you see all the classes in your project and their members and fields.

- New Include hierarchy, which lets you inspect the hierarchy of source and header files in your project

- New Type hierarchy, which lets you inspect all types and subtypes of a class

- Code completion for #include directives