Is anyone using VS 2010 as an editor for non-VS projects? I recently started a contracting job with an open source shop that has a lot of code in JS and PHP file. My editor of choice is Visual Studio 2010, but VS wants to work with .SLN and .CSPROJ files.
Other editors like Aptana and Zend seem to be happy when I point them at a location on the hard drive, and they root themselves from there without any extra prompting.
What are some tips/tricks for using using VS as a LAMP stack editor?
[EDIT based on feedback below]:
I am NOT looking for LAMP-stack editor that lets me compile. Rather, I just want to root VS at, say, C:\MyLampProject and then have the IDE show me the directory structure from that location so I can easily open PHP and JS files.
AFAIK, this is not possible.
Visual studio is an editor made by Microsoft for use with Microsoft languages, such as C#, VB.net, C++ and F#. Even though can exist mods on internet (I really dont know anyone) I dont think they will work nicely (intellisense will not work, for example).
Visual studio are not like Eclipse.
Eclipe may work for what you want, but it depends on the language you are going to work with.
EDIT
Visual studio will open any files you want, but it cant compile neither understand projects that are not those I mentioned.
EDIT2
After writing this post, I found out this:
Native PHP support in Visual Studio 2010?
http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php
Maybe it can help you.