workshop-2021

Application development

Prerequisites

1. Download Visual Studio 2019 (Community Edition)
   • https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

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2. Download Qt Installer (Open source)
   • https://www.qt.io/download-qt-installer?hsCtaTracking=99d9dd4f-5681-48d2-b096-470725510d34%7C074ddad0-fdef-4e53-8aa8-5e8a876d6ab4
3. Install Qt version 5.15 msvc2019 64-bit
   • Sign-up for Qt
   • Select Custom installation for Qt (preferably also D as the installation drive - aprox 2GB disk space will be needed)
   • Expand Qt 5.15.2 and select msvc2019 64-bit. Leave all other options as default.

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4. Qt Visual Studio Tools (installed from Visual Studio)
   • Menu -> Manage Extensions -> Search for Qt
5. Download and Close Visual Studio 2019 (so the extension can be applied).
6. Configure Qt versions in Visual studio
   • Menu -> Extensions -> Qt VS tools -> Qt versions
   • Add the installed version by navigating to the installation dir \Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019_64\bin folder.
   • Set it as default (see default checkbox)
7. Configure Visual Studio project with Qt version
   • Right Click on PaintTest -> Qt -> Qt project Settings
   • Make sure the Version is $(DefaultQtVersion)

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8. Rebuild project
   • ========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========