Debug PHP visually with Code Maps
Important! You to have Visual Studio Enterprise for Code Maps to work.
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PHP Unit Tests in Visual Studio
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PHP Tools for Visual Studio (Late October 2021)
Introducing PHP Tools for Visual Studio, version 1.57! This update brings the new Object ID support in debugger, Project Events, improvements to Remote Explorer and corresponding remote profiles, and improves overall stability and existing features.
Know what PHP objects are doing behind your back
The objects sometimes misbehave. You watch them closely when your are debugging and they behave as they should - they know you are watching. You are stepping through the code, sinking deeper into the methods. When you surface back and see your old objects again, they are different, their properties have changed. Something happened to them behind your back.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio (October 2021)
Let's take a look on the new updates in PHP Tools and Visual Studio. The PHP editor provides more navigation features, debugger works smarter with breakpoints, and the overall stability and performance has been improved.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio (September 2021)
The latest update to PHP Tools for Visual Studio improves and fixes overall functionality, and updates the PHP 8.1 support. Read more for the details!
Debugging PHP by multiple users through Xdebug proxy
Two developers and one server. They both want to debug php code there. And now what?
PHP tooltips in Visual Studio explained
Tool-tips are a common feature of modern code editors and IDEs. They display available information about a symbol under the mouse cursor, and during the code completion. Check out, what you can do with tool-tips in a PHP language in Visual Studio.
Debugging PHP Errors and Exceptions
In PHP there are two ways how unexpected state of the program are handled. First one is the traditional procedural approach - errors, which also includes notices and warnings.
Compound Launch and Debug in VS Code
Very often a PHP project consists of several separately hosted applications, such as a public website and some API. In case developer wants to run and debug his set of applications locally, there is a very useful feature in VS Code called compound launch.