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The future of VS.Php standalone edition

juanc — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:30:57 +0000

VS.Php standalone edition is a great tool for PHP developers who don't own Visual Studio. It comes with the Visual Studio shell and provides all the features you find in the other editions of VS.Php.

I'll like to share a bit of history on the standalone edition, where we are today and where we are going tomorrow.

History of VS.Php Standalone Edition

Improving Built-in web server

juanc — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:12:15 +0000

In VS.Php 2.7 we have added extra functionality to the built-in Apache web server. First, you will no longer see a console Apache window showing up when you start the debug session. Instead, you will see a nice icon showing up in the traybar.

Second, if the Apache process crashes, it will recover and will let you continue debug your application. In previous versions, if the Apache process crashes, it would stop the debug session.

Finally, it also informs you if Apache failed to start. Any errors Apache reports to the stderr, will be presented in a message box.

VS.Php 2.7 (beta) + IIS 7 Integration

juanc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:16:29 +0000

We have redone our IIS integration in VS.Php 2.7. The new level of integration is more powerful and flexible.

You can now use IIS with any local project instead of having a specific project type for IIS. That means you can use the project wizard to create project from existing folder and then use IIS.

IIS7 is now one more option in the debug mode settings.

When you select the IIS7 debug mode, a wizard will walk you through the process of getting IIS7 configured to run your project.

VS.Php 2.6.4 released

juanc — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:55:13 +0000

This is another minor update to the 2.6 branch. The following are some of the key changes in this release:

- Fix indentation issues when using "else if"
- Fix reconnection issues on remote server projects. When the connection goes down, it will reconnect silently. It also has the ability to force a reconnection.
- Fix issue on remote project servers that allows to create new folders.
- Fix problem detecting if a remote folder existed
- Fix issue with saving credentials for remote server projects.
- Fix issue with XDebug and remote server projects with mapping breakpoints.

Is it time to get rid of bundling PHP 4 runtime in VS.Php?

juanc — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:30:24 +0000

Until now, we have been including both PHP 5 and PHP 4 runtimes with VS.Php. In an attempt to simplify things, I was wondering if we could get rid of the PHP 4 runtime. Afterall, I think everyone has moved to PHP 5 by now since PHP 4 is no longer supported.

What if I get rid of PHP 4 in the next release of VS.Php 2.7? Any issues with that? Please speak up before I get rid of it.

Happy Easters!

Juan

Older downloads

juanc — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:29:35 +0000

New server

juanc — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:03:31 +0000

We are finally using a new server. After a few weeks of instability on the website due to the increase in traffic we have moved to a more powerful server. If you see something not working quite right please let me know. I'd appreciate the feedback.

Thanks,

Juan

VS.Php 2.7 (beta) and Silverlight 3 (beta)

juanc — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:43:31 +0000

Check out the new integration between VS.Php 2.7 (beta) and Silverlight 3 (beta):

http://screencast.com/t/i0qyiGi3yZ

VS.Php 2.7 is available for download here:

http://www.jcxsoftware.com/jcx/vsphp/beta

Silverlight 3 beta will probably be available soon as well. I'm going to fix a few issues so it works ok with Silverlight 2 but there will be a few things that aren't going to work quite well as in Silverlight 3.

Juan

localhost no longer works with Apache

juanc — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:10:23 +0000

In the past few days there was a change in Vista (I'm guessing) in which localhost resolves to the IPv6 loopback address instead of the IPv4 address. The problem is that VS.Php's apache server only supports IPv4 and therefore when you start your debug session you get an error saying the page can not be displayed.

I uploaded a new version of VS.Php that explicitly uses 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in the url when starting a debug session in built-in mode. This solves this problem.

http://www.jcxsoftware.com/download.php

VS.Php 2.6 (Japanese) Released

juanc — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:32:03 +0000

I'm proud to announce that we have released VS.Php 2.6 Japanese Edition.

http://www.asial.co.jp/vsphp/release.php

This build release for the Japanese market has a few bug fixes that aren't in our current release. I plan to release a new minor English release tomorrow.