PHP Tools for Visual Studio - Documentation

v1.19.8876

Date: July 18, 2016

  • Fix of an exception message during project load.

v1.19.8851

Date: July 5, 2016

  • Updated integrated manual to latest.
  • Complete descriptions of builtin PHP symbols.
  • IntelliSense provides help for DOTNET, COM, mysqli* symbols.
  • Support for Project Home different than Project Directory.
  • Formatting of lambda functions.
  • Smart indent of lambda functions.
  • Fixes of internal exceptions.
  • Fixed "Bad Length" within the activation process.
  • Automatic update of Xdebug and PHP 5 if possible.
  • Automatic installation of PHP 7 if selected (syntax not fully supported yet).

v1.19.8776

Date: April 28, 2016

  • Fixed Import Dialog crash when Project path is invalid.
  • (VS2013) Update in VS2013 notification fix.
  • (VS2015) EXPERIMENTAL - Mixed HTML/CSS/JS/PHP formatting.
  • (VS2015) Fixes for code formatting.
  • Improved smart indent when cursor is between { and }.
  • Improved IntelliSense when there are both @property PHPDoc and field declaration.
  • Error List shows syntax errors from files not included in a project as well.
  • Smart Tag for Implement Abstract Members implements interfaces and base types as well.
  • Fix of VS crash in Interpreters dialog.

v1.19.8736

Date: March 29, 2016

  • Fixed VS crashes when using IIS without having IIS installed.
  • HTML formatting on paste fix.
  • Wordwrap can be enabled/disabled using Ctrl+E,W.
  • (VS2015) Laravel @foreach @endforeach.
  • IIS Express project uses configuration from existing binding if any.
  • Fix of interpreters dialog crashing VS in case of an unexpected php.exe version string.

v1.19.8685

Date: February 29, 2016

  • Running tests within a project in a solution folder fix.
  • Composer handles plugin API correctly.
  • Find All References looks into whole project.
  • "switch" snippet updated.
  • Workaround for crash issue with SassyStudio.

v1.19.8647

Date: February 19, 2016

  • General improvements and fixes.
  • HighDPI UI improvements.
  • Code Definition Window.
  • Web Platform Installer utilization improvements.
  • Memory usage optimization.

Server

  • Per-project PHP version setting.
  • IIS Express server improvements and fixes
  • IIS Express with support for SSL site.
  • IIS Express works even if there isn't IIS.
  • Improved server configuration validation.
  • Option to automatically download and install selected PHP version.
  • PHPRC environment variable set correctly.
  • Option to set Web Root other than project directory.

Composer

  • Performance optimizations.

Editor

  • Split Window fixes.
  • HTML+PHP selection format fixes.
  • (VS2010 - VS1013) Fix of code formatting when there is CSS or JS.
  • Class item template with a namespace.

Phalanger

  • Switching between PHP and Phalanger seamlessly (requires Phalanger Tools).