Under the hood, MSBuild provides the project file format and build framework. The Visual Studio Project System is widely used as the build system of choice for C++ projects in VS. Using Qt with the Visual Studio Project System This version features an improved integration of Qt tools with the Visual Studio project system, addressing some limitations of the current integration methods, most notably the inability to have different Qt settings for each project configuration, and lack of support for importing those settings from shared property sheets. We have released Qt Visual Studio Tools 2.4 RC (version 2.4.0) the installation package is available in the Qt download page.