====== C++ Developing Environment ======

The C++ API is built on top of the Qt framework from Nokia (formerly by Trolltech). Visit http://qt.nokia.com for more information about Qt. By terms of the QT license it is required to acquire a commercial Qt license per developer to develop applications based on the BPS C++ API. Several Qt editions and platforms are available, we recommend the //Desktop Edition//.

The recommended IDE and compiler for the windows platform is //Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Professional Edition//. Find information about the product at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/vstudio . Other "higher" rated editions such as //Teambuilder Edition// will also fully qualify, however in case you dont really develop in big teams there is no benefit. The free //Express Edition// is limited in several ways, so we cannot recommend it.

Opional, but highly recommended for development convenience, is the VS2005 plug-in //Visual Assist X// from Whole Tomato Software. Find information about it at http://www.wholetomato.com 

The API documentations are created with //Doxygen//, a free source code generation tool created by Dimitri van Heesch. Find it at http://www.doxygen.org 

Detailed information about the setup is found in the toolset descriptions:

^  BPS Version from  ^  BPS Version to  ^  Toolset              ^
|  2.0               |  2.3             |  [[devenv453|4.5.3]]  | 
|  2.4               |  2.10            |  [[devenv463|4.6.3]]  | 
|  2.11              |  ?               |  [[devenv471|4.7.1]]  |