How to link an existing .exe to a DLL?

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Which is why I use Visual Studio 2008. QtCreator is nice, but VS2008 with the plugins you are used to is much better. My full time job is software engineer, I use VS at work and work pays for the home VS license too, so it makes sense to me.

But of course the situation is different for each person. I'm not sure on the deployment licensing of VS express edition, but using the VS EE under QtCreator is a good choice for non-commercial work.