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Rami Dridi
Rami Dridi

Reputation: 351

Can I develop Cross-Platform Desktop Applications using Visual C++?

I'd like to develop a cross platform desktop application I found on google that I can do that using QT but I'm more interested in Visual Studio (c++) so can I develop cross platform applications using visual c++ ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1932

Answers (1)

Mr.C64
Mr.C64

Reputation: 42914

Visual Studio is an IDE, and you can use several frameworks to build desktop applications in C++ using Visual Studio. If you choose a Windows-specific framework, for example MFC, then your application will be Windows-only, of course.

But, at the same time, if you pick a cross-platform framework, like Qt, you can develop cross-platform desktop applications using Visual Studio in C++.

While Qt has its own IDE (Qt Creator), a Qt Visual Studio add-in is also available:

The Qt Visual Studio Add-in allows programmers to create, build, debug and run Qt applications from within non-Express versions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, 2010, and 2012. The add-in contains project wizards, Qt project import/export support, integrated Qt resource manager and automated build setup for the Qt Meta-Object Compiler, User Interface Compiler, and Resource Compiler.

Upvotes: 3

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