I recently upgraded to VS PHP 2.8 for Visual Studio 2009 on my work compuer. The computer operating system is Vista Business. The version of PHP is 5.3. After the upgrade, a program that I could debug flawlessly failed every time when it encountered a $ch = curl_init(); command. I removed VS PHP 2.8 and reinstalled VS PHP 2.7. Once Version 2.7 was reinsttalled, I was able to debug the same propram without any problems. I used the same php.ini file for both PHP 2.8 and PHP 2.7.

juanc says:

You need to use a new php.ini for PHP 5.3

There are a lot of changes in the php.ini that will break a lot of basic stuff like mysql and other modules.

You should start off with the one created by VS.Php and tweak it.

Regards,

Juan