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by kumrayu 141 days ago
Building apps on Windows feels like a big PITA to get into. The amount of different frameworks and libraries to work with is perplexing to a new developer and I really do not want to use electron or React or even Qt.

Where do I start? Do you have a compiled version of some information on this?
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pjmlp 141 days ago
You start by using the Qt installer, and installing QtStudio alongside mingw, hardly that complicated for anyone that has ever done C or C++ development.

Since I know those languages since 1992, and have coded for Windows since Windows 3.0, I never bothered with any guide personally.

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Manfred 141 days ago
Even following their own "getting started" tutorials you get stuck at step one trying to find Visual Studio or whatever it's called nowadays.
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bitwize 141 days ago
Oh, you mean Visual Studio 2026 Copilot App 365 & Knuckles?
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mycall 141 days ago
> Where do I start?

I hate to say but GitHub Copilot can get you started. It slurped up all of Microsoft SDK and docs and open source libs. It is a decent reference.

I'm also kinda impressed by the Debugger Agent [0] built into Visual Studio 2026.

[0] https://medium.com/@onu.khatri/copilot-squad-in-vs-2026-ca88...

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