I'm interested to buy/use QT. What I need from microsoft ?

[peppe]

A friend has talking me about QT. He likes it very much.
I'm interesated, but I dont see really 100% clear what I need from MS ?
(Because I'll need to use third party libraries compiled with visual studio).
Do I need visual studio ? Can be the express edition be sufficient ? or need I only the SDK ?
What are the differences betwen the qt-nokia lgpl products and the provided by Digia ?
Thanks

[LDel001]

You don't actually need anything from Microsoft, Powerful Qt applications can be built without the visual studio environment. You can develop C / C++ applications using QtCreator, which is the Qt equivalent to visual studio.

I know my answer could be more in depth, but that is really the basic answer.

Welcome to the Qt community.

Leam.

[runfast]

Basically Qt does not have to use MS, you can build software in MingW/g++ for free on Windows platform, however if you want to use third libs/dlls (with MFC extension) compiled with MSVC++, then the VC++ is needed to link the static libs or import libs. If the third party dll api is simple, you can use it at runtime with LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress(), so no MS is needed at all.