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