Disable the WPF designer in VS 2010?

Question

Is there a way to disable the WPF designer (the preview pane, I only need the XAML-pane with intellisense) in VS 2010?

Please note that when hiding the Design view of the WPF designer, it will still render the form/control ... I don't consider that disabled.

I only see the "Open With" + "XML Editor"-solution, which doesn't give nearly the fidelity the default XAML designer has.

Answer 1

I don't know about 2010, but in 2008 you can Tools->Options->Text Editor->XAML->MIscellaneous->"Always open documents in full XAML view"

Maybe this helps.

Answer 2

I haven't tried this in Visual Studio 2010, but in 2008 you can have it treat XAML files as XML files (and thus use the standard XML text editor, rather than the designer's XML editor). You can do this by right clicking an XAML file, select "Open With", pick XML file from the list, and then set that as the default.

At least in 2008, you still got pretty good intellisense, but none of the overhead of the XAML designer.

Answer 3

WOOOOt that helped so much!!!