Visual D released

[Rainer Schuetze]

Very good hint!

You can use the (integrated) Visual Studio Shell, that is the IDE 
stripped of any language support. Installing Visual D on top of it will 
make it an IDE for D.

Here is a download link for VS Shell 2008:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=40646580-97FA-4698-B65F-620D4B4B1ED7&displaylang=en

The version I tried is the release candidate for VS Shell 2010:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36023a58-2f85-4f7e-bd87-adac086e7ba6&displaylang=en

I've seen some issues with debugging in this version, but these were 
also there with VS 2010 Professional.

dennis luehring wrote:
>> I installed it, but it won't load the Visual D package. Too bad...
> 
> i've read the following on the http://www.jcxsoftware.com/ php-ide 
> plugin extension page
> 
> "...
> The express edition has limited functionality but one of its biggest 
> limitations is that you can not load third party plug-ins like VS.Php.
> 
> Lukily enough, VS.Php comes with its own copy of the Visual Studio shell 
> in case you don't own Visual Studio Professional..."
> 
> so it seems that there is an solution available
>