> A few weeks ago, someone asked if anyone had any experience with VS.PHP, > which is a PHP plug-in for Visual Studio. > > I've been doing all my development with TextPad and figured it was time to > change to an IDE, so I could be more productive. > > In case anyone is still wondering... > > I downloaded a trial version of VS.PHP and gave it a whirl... > > In order to run the application, you need to have Visual Studio installed, > with VS 2005 being preferred. I got a free copy at a Microsoft thing a year > or 2 ago, so that helped. VS is a little pricy, although I understand that > is can be run with limited functionality under the Express Edition, which is > free. > > By no means did I try all the features, but in the short time I used it I > made the following observations... > > 1. It seems to require you to store all of the files in a directory several > below your My Documents folder. It does have the ability to deploy to > another folder, local or remote, but I like to code, save and refresh my > browser, without having to click my way through to the deploy option. > > 2. Debugging was OK, better than what I had (nothing) but nothing > spectacular > > 3. Intellisense for PHP was OK, and excellent for HTML (But do you really > need it for HTML?) > > 4. As someone who cut their coding teeth on Visual Basic, the interface was > fairly easy to learn. > > 5. Updates to the software are frequent and install very quickly. > > I am sure that over time this will improve into a very viable IDE for PHP > developers. > > With that all said, I downloaded the Zend Studio on Friday as a comparison, > and within 10 minutes think I would rather splash out on the Zend IDE in > lieu of the VS.PHP one. Especially since the base package is the same price > ($99) for both of them.
Perhaps you could add this to the uphpu.org website as a software review. thanks, thebigdog _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
