Qt and Visual Studio Express Edition 2008

[PUK_999]

Hi there,

Until now I've just been using Qt 4.5 SDK on Windows XP and Vista - simple and straightforward as it includes mingw/g++ for me. However, because of an incompatibility with Qt Creator and a third party library, I want to investigate other ways of using Qt.

I don't want to dwell on the "incompatibility" in this thread as I've been talking about it on another thread.

Can I use it with Visual Studio Express Edition 2008? I believe I can but I'm just wondering what it would "look like" from an IDE point of view. Would I then be using the Visual Studio IDE and linking with Qt, or using the Qt Creator IDE and using Visual Studio's compiler as the backend (rather than g++ from mingw)?

Will I still be able to use Qt Designer, or do I need to handcraft all the GUI widgets if I went with Visual Studio and Qt?

Thanks,

PUK

[PUK_999]

I've been chipping away at this and found this set of videos which helped a bit.

In those videos, he's rebuilt Qt using the VC++ compiler, gone into the Visual Studio IDE to create a Makefile Project and setup the build command line to do

qmake -project && qmake && nmake

qmake -project && qmake && nmake

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Is this the way to use Qt with Visual Studio, or are there others?

Thanks,

PUK