title: PHP Tools for Visual Studio, a real alternative or not?
body: <p>I am a long time developer mixing languages back and forth. The past few years I've mainly been working with .NET and Visual Studio. Whenever I write something in PHP I tend to work with NetBeans IDE (on my mac) and have always been satisfied with the general functionality, the IntelliSense and the included PHPDoc functionality.</p>
  
  <p>And there I am. I really like VS but now it looks like I'm going to do some php-coding again. </p>
  
  <p>Is PHP Tools for Visual Studio a real option when building enterprise-like frameworks?</p>
  
  <p>If not, shall I continue with NetBeans or would that mainly indicate that I'm an old grumpy fart who's afraid of everything new? </p>
  
  <p>I've read some opinions on Jetbrains php ide but the likings have been mixed, there are also many that seem to like zend but as I figured it it's best when you are using the zend frameworks which is a bit of a problem since I create my own frameworks.</p>
  
  <p>It is a bonus if the IDE can run PHP 5.3 and use the build in webserver for real time debugging. Or are there any other strategies on this I should be aware of?</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6eb51f05-ef01-4513-ac83-4c5f50c95fb5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PHP Tools for Visual Studio</a></li>
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