I am trying to find a way to disable Design / Split views from appearing in Visual Studio. I figure there's no way to completely disable it, but I still can't seem to find a way to remove the shortcut (F7), or remove the buttons from the bottom bar.
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cowgod
2009-01-01 14:54:32
A:
You should be able to delete the keyboard assignment for F7 in the Keyboard Customization screen. All hotkey assignments are customizable AFAIK.
I doubt there's any way to get rid of the buttons on the UI.
sliderhouserules
2009-01-01 00:02:56
As for my self, I find it annoying to get the designer view as default on classes I write myself inheriting from the base controls. More often than not, the design view cannot render my types and displays an exception.
Øyvind Skaar
2009-01-02 11:45:45
i just hate because it lags whatever im doing for 4 seconds if i accidently open it. drives me nuts
Shawn Simon
2009-01-02 22:29:08
+2
A:
The best I found was:
for HTML/ASPX - Options -> HTML Designer -> start pages in source view
for XAML -> Options -> Text Editor -> XAML -> Misc -> Always open documents in full XAML view
bh213
2009-01-01 14:50:22
+1
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Short blog post here apparently has an answer for this problem http://renaissauce.com/thoughts/visual-studio-2008-tip-remove-the-design-split-source-button-bar/
John Rutter
2009-08-30 12:58:25
I Googled the actual blog post title and found this: http://renaissauce.com/post/Visual-Studio-2008-Tip-Remove-the-DesignSplitSource-button-bar.aspx
Dan Atkinson
2010-05-14 09:57:15