Visual Studio environment alternative

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 开发者_运维技巧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?

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

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