Is it possible to use the Qt Extension with VS Community

[mrmorph]

On another thread it was suggested to me that the Add On/extension for VS Community might make things easier.

I tried downloading a couple of versions but it says it cannot find a version of VS that is acceptable.

Is there perhaps another download I missed ?

I'm using the newest version of Community and I need to use Qt 4.8.1

Many thanks.

[mrjj]

Hi
please see @Chris-Kawa post

It is possible but not sure the newest is supported yet.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32299944/qt-visual-studio-community-add-in
also, to use older Qt, you must likely have to compile it yourself since the pre-compiled
downloadable packs are not available for old qt and newest compilers.

please see this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32848962/how-to-build-qt-4-8-6-with-visual-studio-2015-without-official-support

[Chris Kawa]

You're out of luck. VS2015 has removed the support for add-ins.
The add-in needs to be ported to a VS extension for VS2015 and the word is it's not gonna be soon.
It's also unlikely that a new extension would support Qt4.
There's an unofficial extension which is a port of the add-in called Qt5Package, but, as the name suggests, it only supports Qt5.

So your options are:

• update to Qt5 and use the unofficial extension for now
• downgrade to VS2013 and use add-in 1.1.11, which was the last one still supporting Qt4.

[mrmorph]

OK thanks - I'll just carry on as I am then,.