The Visual Studio debugger is incredibly rich and knowing more than F5, F9, F10, F11 and Watch windows can save you lot of time. Finding an issue and simulating a particular state of the application can be achieved easily if we utilize the rich debugging features available out-of-the-box in Visual Studio. All these features are available for PHP developers using PHP Tools.
Checkout the latest update of PHP Tools for Visual Studio which brings several interesting features and enhancements.
Today, we are happy to announce public availability of PHP Tools 1.22. The release brings several internal improvements but also build for latest Visual Studio 2017 RC and complete support for Smarty templating.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio are being continuously updated and improved with new features, always supporting latest Visual Studio and PHP. Today we are introducing version 1.21 and what is new in there.
We are working very hard to improve PHP Tools so we can provide new and better tools for creating safe and efficient code. Today, we will spotlight numerous new features, introduced in the latest PHP Tools, that focus on code validation and PHP version compatibility.
Today, we are proud to announce the release of an early access version of PHP Tools for Visual Studio 2017. For the third consecutive major release of Visual Studio, DEVSENSE was selected as Visual Studio Sim-ship partner.
We are working very hard to bring new features to PHP Tools so we can improve the user experience and usability. Today we introduce newly added highlighting of unnecessary use declarations.
In the previous post we mentioned some new features primarily related to our completely new parser, which gives us the ability to support for PHP 7.0 while maintaining support for PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6. Also with PHP 7.1 already being in the release candidate state, we're preparing PHP 7.1 support which will be available in the 1.21 release. You can check what's new in PHP 7.1 in this migrating guide. Of course, we are going to offer compatibility warnings when migrating from one version of PHP to another, as we have been doing since 1.20 - see the previous post
PHP 7 proves it is faster and more secure than PHP has ever been. We are happy to announce the public availability of PHP 7 support into Visual Studio, including code colorization, IntelliSense, debugging, refactoring, unit testing and all the Visual Studio features you like.
