Hello.

I guess it is probably a wrong forum to post the question, but it's just the nearest to me

I have a client who has programmed an .Net application. It works quite good, but the problem is that it works only on Windows and it needs .Net framework to be installed before usage.

So I had an idea that as Qt4 is so portable and covers wide areas of GUI programming, maybe it is possible to port that application to Qt4. Does anyone have any experience with such porting? Can Qt4 do what .Net does?

If any Qt4 developer has run out of job (or just needs additional income) and is interested in this project, feel free to write me privately if you have any specific questions.

.NET Is an application framework that is very similar to Java, Qt4 is a GUI Toolkit library. The two are very different things.

Thee closest thing you're going to find is a combination of Qt4 and Mono (Qyoto is an example implementation), however if you're truly interested in multiplatform development you might want to look at some of the interpreted languages which can make use of Qt4, such as Python. This will enable rapid development and get you multiplatform support all in one, but it really depends on what kind of application you're developing and how big it currently is.

Actually Qt4 is not just a GUI Toolkit library.

Tenno Seremel wrote:Actually Qt4 is not just a GUI Toolkit library.

That's exactly what I was thinking - Qt has modules for many different things, for network communication, for videos etc. Am I right?

So if the application does not need very specific stuff (and the one I'm speaking about actually does not, AFAIK), then Qt should be enough for most things, right?

Or can anyone say what .Net has that Qt is missing?

Well, that depends on what your application do and Qt4's capabilities. I'm not terribly familiar with .NET so I don't know.

There's no much .Net specific things in the application I'm speaking about, so (after consulting some .Net guys too) I guess the porting is very much doable. So still.. any interested Qt4 developers that can talk (or rather - understand) .Net (I guess it's C#), feel free to contact me