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Qt Visual Studio Tools

Qt Visual Studio Tools

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This official Qt Group extension, Qt Visual Studio Tools, integrates Qt development tools into Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, enabling developers to use their familiar Windows environment without worrying about Qt-related build steps or tools.
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Qt VS Tools for Visual Studio 2022

This official Qt Group extension, Qt Visual Studio Tools, integrates Qt development tools into Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, enabling developers to use their familiar Windows environment without worrying about Qt-related build steps or tools.

See also:

  • Qt VS Tools for Visual Studio 2019
  • Qt VS Tools for Visual Studio 2022 on ARM

Documentation

  • Qt VS Tools Documentation
  • Changelog

The main features of Qt VS Tools are:

  • Support for Qt-enabled CMake projects.
  • Wizards for creating new Qt and Qt Quick projects and files.
  • Automated build setup for the Meta-Object Compiler (moc) , User Interface Compiler (uic) , and Resource Compiler (rcc).
  • Import of Qt project files (.pro) and project include files (.pri).
  • Automated conversion of a qmake project into a Qt/MSBuild project.
  • Integrated Qt resource management.
  • Integrated Qt documentation.
  • Debugging extensions for Qt data types.
  • QML debug engine for debugging Qt Quick applications.

Experimental features of Qt VS Tools:

  • Support for QML Language Server.
  • Support for the Visual Studio test adapter for the Qt Test framework.

Qt MSBuild file support

Alongside providing Qt-related MSBuild files within the Qt VS Tools package, we now offer them as a separate .zip download for your convenience. Starting from version 3.2.0, access the standalone Qt MSBuild files by visiting our public server download location: Official releases.

How to set up F1 help

  1. Select Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard
  2. In the Show commands containing field, enter Help.F1QtHelp
  3. Select the Press shortcut keys field and press your preferred keys to add them to the field. The default shortcut is set to Alt+F1
  4. Select Assign, and then select OK.

How to contribute via GitHub?

  • Source code on GitHub
  • Pull requests on GitHub

How to contribute via Qt Labs?

  • Source code on Qt Labs
  • Qt VS Tools Code Review
For more information on how to contribute to the Qt Visual Tools via Qt Labs, please look at the Qt contribution Guidelines first.

How to report bugs?

  • Qt Bug Tracker
  • GitHub Issue Tracker

You are welcome to join the discussions in the Qt Project mailing lists, development forums and to contribute to Qt.

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