Microsoft Partners With Zend
jesse.castro writes to point out news of Microsoft striking a multi-year partnership with PHP provider Zend to improve PHP's performance on Windows-based Web servers. From the article: "Rather than marking a sudden change of course, Microsoft is openly engaging in a dialogue with Zend, a key open source promoter, and millions of PHP developers, analysts said."
Ugh.
php's a logical choice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Criticism
668: Neighbour of the Beast
There's a product called VS PHP. I've never tried it, but since it claims to plug into VS, I'd assume it allows anything VS does. But I don't know that for a fact.
Implicit Evaluation with PHP