Qt and VC++ 6.0 IDE?

First of all I was wondering if I should use Qt and Windows together. If so should I use VC++ 6.0 IDE or another one?

From stackoverflow

• They work pretty well together.
  I have used Visual Studio Express 2008.

• I'm of the opinion that no one should be using VC++ 6.0 for anything at this point. Your better off just getting the express version of 2008 if your worried about cost.

  ephemient : +1 Agreed: VC++ 6.0 is far too ancient for any modern C++ code at all. Avoid at all costs.

  Lucas McCoy : But I thought VC++ 7.1+ was .NET and not compiled into binary?

  Lucas McCoy : Do you think I should use MFC over Qt?

  BigSandwich : Your confusing Managed C++ with regular C++. Newer versions of VS still support regular C++ and are much more standards compliant. 6.0 is very old and out of date. And no, MFC is horrible too. looks around to see when he said anything about MFC

  Lucas McCoy : I switched to VC++ Express 2008, Thanks for the help guys!

• I work on a product called ParaViewGeo (paraviewgeo.mirarco.org). It makes extensive use of Qt and we have been successful using Visual Studio 6 through to 2008.

  Since Qt is cross-platform, I'll go tangential here and mention that another good cross-platform idea is CMake which is a cross-platform Make that can generate Visual Studio solution files from your code, as well as project files for other compilers, in case you do change your mind and get a different IDE.

  Max Howell : qmake can generate visual studio solutions too: qmake -tp vc

• There's also Eclipse which is free, cross-platform and has a ton of plug-ins.

• Check out QT Creator

  Qt® Creator is a new, lightweight, cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) designed to make development with the Qt application framework even faster and easier.

  Tailored specifically to the needs of Qt developers creating cross-platform applications Focuses on features that boost developer productivity without getting in their way Helps new Qt developers get up and running faster Open and extendable; integrates familiar tools and file formats

  The final release of Qt Creator is planned for early 2009.

  Lucas McCoy : I tried QT Creator and really liked it, but I think I'm still going to stick with VC++ 2008