Today, we aligned the official release of VS.Php for Visual Studio 2008 with Microsoft's release of their trifecta of Windows 2008, Sql Server 2008 and importantly for us, Visual Studio 2008.

Microsoft is a great supporter of Php on Visual Studio. Brian Goldfarb, group product manager in the Developer Platform & Tools Team at Microsoft Corp said: "By utilizing the new features in Visual Studio 2008, PHP developers can build and deploy PHP applications faster and with a higher quality."

Microsoft also released a new site called Visual Studio Gallery. In there you can find tons of Visual Studio plug-ins you can use together to increase the value of Visual Studio.

VS.Php is listed and I encourage you to visit the page.

Now, we will be focusing on VS.Php 2.5 which will include a new standalone edition based on the 2008 IDE.