Hi everyone,
I have a few questions on the installation procedure for Qt 4.5 on Windows xp(sp 1)--

1)I am planning to download Qt 4.5 mingw.exe(not the commercial version) .Now,I am pretty dumb about computers and software(tried coding for the first time in 2008)so,if I download that package, do I need to have Visual Studio 2005 SP1 installed in my system beforehand.Or, will I be able to do without VS.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/install-win.html says Open Source Versions of Qt is not officially supported for use with any version of Visual Studio. Integration with Visual Studio is available as part of the Qt Commercial Editions.
And step 4. says-
Building
To configure the Qt library for your machine, type the following command in a Visual Studio command prompt:
C:
cd /D C:\Qt\4.4.0-rc1
configure

So,I can't figure out what to do .

2)Which to use for writing the code- Qt creator or Visual studio.If Qt creator is the way to go then do we still need Visual studio pre installed?

I hope my questions are not too dumb

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.