What's new in PHP Tools for Visual Studio 1.6.4064

Mar 18, 2013
  • minor fix when VS freezes on first opened php file
  • PHPDoc @param without variable name handled
  • feedback button crash fix
  • debugging path mapping fixes
  • publishing issue fix with new files
  • formatter handles class field initializers
  • singleline PHPDoc not collapsible
  • class search shows classes, global functions, constants
  • tooltip stability issue fix
  • closing file crash while IntelliSense is active fix
  • renaming files under source control fix

New in PHP Tools for Visual Studio 1.6.4040 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • Minor fix of IntelliSense and Class View within solutions with more than one PHP project loaded

New in PHP Tools for Visual Studio 1.6.4039 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Project Publish:
  • Manual Publish command
  • Publish profiles management
  • Publish Wizard, connection validation
  • File System, FTP, FTPS, SFTP protocols
  • Automatic publish before Run
  • Fast incremental Publish
  • Remote Debugging / Custom server:
  • Automatic directory mapping
  • Publish before run
  • PHP Built-in server Routing Script option:
  • Class View, Class search:
  • structured by namespaces
  • Object Browser
  • IntelliSense improvements:
  • Asynchronous IntelliSense (Completor, Word Completion, ToolTip, MethodTip) immediate editor response
  • IntelliSense of array items, foreach enumeration
  • array type hint in PHPDoc supported (e.g. ObjType[])
  • Global constants defined thru define() with PHPDoc
  • Global variables defined thru PHPDoc (using @global tag)
  • Other IntelliSense engine improvements
  • IntelliSense engine optimizations
  • fast editor response when matching/highlighting braces
  • Description of more PHP keywords and built-in functions
  • Go To Declaration’ (F12) in case of variables and properties does not show implicit declarations
  • Go To Declaration’ (F12) of declarations from @method or @property jumps to corresponding PHPDoc tag
  • options for disabling code collapsing by default, collapsing of PHPDoc blocks or #region/#endregion
  • option for IntelliSense variable preselection when $ is typed
  • collapsing of code blocks
  • collapsing of group of line comments, allowing to have whitelines between them
  • VS 2012 light/dark project icons
  • php file is opened in an existing instance of Visual Studio when opening from Windows Explorer
  • VS 2012 faster response in large projects
  • Fixes:
  • Start Page with News re-enabled only after major update
  • project system fixes, improvements
  • fixed Method Info for multilined function calls
  • fixed performance issue of huge PHP projects when whole VS was laggy

New in PHP Tools for Visual Studio 1.5.3865 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • new PHP Variable color
  • VS 2012 preview tab supported
  • fixed reseting of HTML colors on VS 2012
  • fixed IntelliSense replacement span, e.g. right before a string
  • fixed syntax error of class constant set to a string containing $

New in PHP Tools for Visual Studio 1.5.3802 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • fixed debugging when user stopped debug manually before debug session ended
  • fixed debugging of projects located in paths containing Unicode characters
  • fixed ‘project from existing code’ wizard messages
  • fixed entering new line with ‘virtual space’ option and with caret after the line end
  • fixed IntelliSense deduction of abstract methods but with PHPDoc information
  • support for improved method call syntax $classname::$methodname()
  • support for improved array syntax [1,2,3, 'key' => $value]