Qwined Technical Editor

Supported Platforms and Development Tools

The target platforms are the latest 32/64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, currently Windows 7/8/8.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012 R2. Windows Vista is also still supported.


The latest releases of Qwined Technical Editor do not support older operating system versions. We understand some of our users may still be dependant of older operating systems, such as Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Therefore Qwined Technical Editor 2008, Qwined Classic, is available at the download page.


All Qwined.org software is developed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. All the setup programs are developed with InstallAware Admin Studio for Windows Installer and are MSI packaged.


The Qwined SDK is mainly written in C++ with C Call Interface - with some lower level parts in plain C. The Qwined SDK is certified only with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. The latest Service Packs and updates are always recommended.


None of the older Microsoft Visual Studio versions are officially supported. Even though they should work properly they are not tested or used in the Qwined development.


If Qwined libraries are accessed dynamically, any programming language supporting C style API calls should work without any additional configuration.


Certified Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (all Intel editions)
  • Microsoft Windows 8 (all Intel editions)
  • Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit (all editions)
  • Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit (all editions)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (all UI editions)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (all UI editions)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (all editions)
Supported Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit (all editions)
  • Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (all editions)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (all editions)

Qwined SQL command line works with over ten different database systems, depending on the database client libraries installed on the system.


Certified Database Systems
  • Microsoft SQL Azure
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (all editions)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (all editions)
Supported Database Systems
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (all editions)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (all editions)
Compatible Database Systems
  • Oracle (OCI)
  • Sybase (Open Client, ASE/ASA)
  • DB/2 (DB2 CLI)
  • Informix (Informix CLI)
  • InterBase/Firebird (Native API)
  • Centura SQLBase (CAPI)
  • MySQL (MySQL C API)
  • PostgreSQL (libpg)
  • ODBC (any)
  • SQLite (Native API)

For more information, please take a look at the Feature List and Change History.


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If you have any feedback relating to features implemented in certain product version, please let our Customer Care Center know.


If you have found a defect or you have a change request relating to any of the product features, please report it here.

Microsoft Windows 8
Compatible with Windows 8

Qwined Technical Editor is officially supporting Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 (Intel versions).


Qwined Technical Editor is developed with Visual Studio 2013 and it is also fully compliant with Windows Server 2012 R2.

Microsoft Windows Azure
Powered by Windows Azure

Qwined SQL command line is officially logo tested to support Microsoft SQL Azure together with many other commercial databases.