Visual Studio project type for PHP projects

Question

Ok, I feel like this should be obvious but I'm just not seeing things. I am fairly new to the .NET scene so I know it's just my unfamiliarity with the IDE that is giving me the problem.

I want to create a PHP project using native Visual Studio 2010 functionality. I figured there would be a generic empty project or something like that but I am not seeing it. I created a blank solution but when I go to add new project all I see are choices for specific project types(C#/VB.net etc). How should I do this? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks much!

Answer 1

Microsoft does not provide PHP templates, compiler support or intellisense.

PHP is not a Microsoft technology, so they do not provide custom tooling for it.

There are third party tools like VS.PHP that utilize the extensibility features of Visual Studio to offer PHP support in Visual Studio, but there is nothing "native", as you put it.

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See this related question from 2009 - Native php support in Visual Studio 2010?.