Visual Studio .NET 2002 en Visual Studio .NET 2003 kunnen worden gebruikt om in een aantal verschillende talen te ontwikkelen. Er zit echter standaard geen support in voor de scriptingtaal PHP. Aangezien verschillende ontwikkelaars de interface van Visual Studio .NET erg handig vinden heeft men hier voor VS.PHP ontwikkeld. Dit is een add-on voor Visual Studio .NET waarmee PHP-bestanden bewerkt, uitgevoerd en gedebugd kunnen worden. Onlangs heeft Jcx.Software een nieuwe versie uitgegeven met het versienummer 1.0.9.1580. De release notes en het changelog zien er als volgt uit
This feature adds a few exciting feature as well as fixes many bugs and improve performance.
Some of the new features include support for goto definition and open document from context menu when selecting an include statement.
This version also makes debugging on remote server much simpler since you are no longer required to set the remote server path setting.
This version also includes a lot of bug fixes in intellisense to improve stability and performance. Intellisense is also capable of handling bigger projects and more complex includes across those files.
Changes:
- Add support for Goto definition
- Add support for open document from context meny when cursor is on top of a require, require_once, include or include_once statement
- Add support for set_include_path. Any path set by calling this function will be used to search included files
- Easier debugging support by no longer requiring remote server path
- Improve support for HereDoc
- Sort the content of the navigation bar
- Improve intellisense performance when having deep include files. No longer making it recursive which will allow deeper nesting without overflowing the stack
- Improve intellisense when having multiple php blocks
- Better error message when activation fails
- Fix bugs 170, 262, 265, 268
- Fix handling of $" rel="external"> and " rel="external">$ inside strings
- Fix more memory leaks