We are happy to announce the release of the Qt Visual Studio Tools version 2.5.2. Installation packages are now available at the Visual Studio Marketplace.
Besides several important bug fixes, this new version of the Qt VS Tools allows creating projects with reference to multiple versions of Qt. A redesigned project creation wizard now allows defining as many project configurations as needed, and specifying which version of Qt and set of Qt modules to use in each configuration. For example, it will now be possible to create a Qt project targeting both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
This change represents a first step in our on-going effort to support multi-platform Qt development with Visual Studio / MSBuild C++ projects. For the next release (v2.6), we plan to introduce cross-compilation of Qt projects through integration with the Visual Studio C++ Linux Workload.
You can track our work progress in bugreports.qt.io. Please feel free to report any problems, or make any suggestions/comments and help us further improve the Qt Visual Studio Tools.
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I am missing a level of detail here. Is it "Visual Studio" or "Visual Studio Code" or both? .... Talk about a bad naming convention.
Its for visual studio not for VS code.
Are there any plans to support the visual code plugin？
Though it's not yet in the release road-map, support for VS Code is something we would like to add in the near future.
Could you please take some effort in improving the natvis support? Would be cool if the Debugger Visualizer would support most of the Qt classes and show its properties.
We plan to release an update of debug visualizers later this year.
Are there any plans to update the version for VS 2013 in the future? The last time VS 2013 was mentioned was in a comment by Miguel Costa on https://www.qt.io/blog/2019/08/19/qt-visual-studio-tools-2-4-rc-released which stated: "Installation packages for VS 2015 and VS 2013 will be available later this week." That never happened for VS 2013. "Qt VS Tools for Visual Studio 2013" is still at version 2.3.2 and I couldn't find any announcement regarding why it wasn't updated or that it won't be updated in the future.
When working on v2.4 we ran into incompatibilities with the SDK for VS 2013 and 2015. We were able to fix the VS 2015 issues but the VS 2013 ones require a bigger effort. We have not abandoned the VS 2013 extension; at the moment, we do not have the resources to bring it up-to-date. We will do so as soon as possible, time/resources permitting; but we do not have a specific plan or release date at this point.