June Summary
Here is what you missed out on our blog this month:
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Visual Studio 2022 (preview)
We're happy to announce that PHP Tools for Visual Studio already supports the new Visual Studio 2022 (since the Preview 2). This brings amazing new features, User-Interface enhancements, and of course the native support for 64-Bit.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio (July 2021)
We are happy to announce PHP Tools for Visual Studio v1.55. This release contains significant improvements, new UI and new features.
Installing and configuring XAMPP for PHP development
XAMPP is a cross-platform Apache HTTP server distribution containing MariaDB (fork of MySQL) database, PHP, and Perl. The word "XAMPP" is an acronym and it seems there is no official explaning of if, but we can safely assume that "X" stands for "cross", meaning "cross-platform", A would be Apache, M is MariaDB. While first P would be short for PHP and second P for Pearl or reversed?
PHP Tools for Code, Version 1.4
Announcing release version 1.4 of PHP Tools for Visual Studio Code. Read more about the new features made for developers, addressing most frequent questions, requests, and ideas.
Laravel on WSL and VS Code
Visual Studio Code and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): those represent a great couple for developing a PHP application such as Laravel inside a virtual Linux environment. This tutorial describes installation of WSL (version 2) on Windows 10, setting up PHP with debugging capabilities in there, creating a Laravel project, and getting your VS Code ready to debug the PHP project in WSL.
PHP Tools for VS Code (May 2021)
The recent updates to PHP Tools for VS Code introduces new features and improvements. Read more about the new test explorer, debugging improvements, code actions, and more.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio (May 2021)
Read the news about new features in PHP 8.1 and PHP Tools for Visual Studio - RegEx, PHP 8.1 enumerations, PHP 8.1 installation, etc.