New Features in Visual Studio (April 2023)
There are exciting new updates, new features, and fixes in PHP Tools extension for Visual Studio! See what's new:
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What's New - PHP Tools for Visual Studio (March 2023)
We're happy to introduce updates to our PHP extension for Visual Studio! Version 1.72 introduces Inlay Hints, new Code Actions, improved code analysis, improved support for Doc Comments with extended syntax for Psalm and PHPStan type names and keywords, and more!
Introducing Composer for VS Code
We are adding a new extension to the Visual Studio Code Marketplace - Composer All-in-One. Composer "All-in-One" provides complete integration of composer and packagist into Visual Studio Code. The extension provides quick composer commands, IntelliSense for composer.json, code lenses, code actions, schema validation, browsing and searching packages, checking abandoned packages, running user scripts, and it extends VS Code with composer tasks.
Bracket pair colorization for PHP in Visual Studio
When you work with code that is deeply nested, it might get hard to know in what context the code is. You should follow good practices and not to create such a code, but sometimes the code is not yours or you are refactoring an old one. In such cases bracket, pair colorization comes in handy. Each bracket pair gets a different color, so you will have an easier job to orient yourself.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio Code News (July 2022)
PHP Tools for VS Code extension keeps growing, and we're happy we can show off a lot of useful new improvements. Recently, we have added support for the new Laravel framework and annotations that Laravel uses, support for generics through DocComment @template tag, redesigned the PHPUnit integration, and more.
PHP Tools, Visual Studio (June 2022)
The June 2022 relese of PHP Tools, the version 1.66, has been released. It brings the great Code Lens adornments into the PHP editor, the support for Eloquent local scopes to the PHP IntelliSense, improved inferring of generic types using class-string<T> annotation, and more!
PHP Tools for Visual Studio (May 2022)
Welcome to the May 2022 update of PHP Tools for Visual Studio. The release v1.65 introduces IntelliSense improvements, enhanced generics support, and mostly the new Debug Inlines and other editor neat improvements.
PHP in VS Code - Pre-Release Extension
Newly, the Visual Studio Code allows to install a pre-release version of extensions (see code.visualstudio.com - updates). It's a great feature for both the extension authors and the users. In result, users can try out new things faster, and extension developers can provide their new features to users who are interested.
