Visual Studio: Make view code default

Question

Is there any way to make Visual Studio show the code of a control / form by default instead of the designer? I tend not to be a fan of the designers as they add bloat.

Answer 1

Right-click on a file and select "Open With..."

Select "CSharp Editor" and then click "Set as Default".

Answer 2

Thank you. This will eliminate a lot of annoyance for me. I don't use the designer nearly as often as the code.

Answer 3

I like having my forms open up in Design View, but I made a partial class file which had only code and Visual Studio wanted to open it in Design View all the time. To prevent Visual Studio from realizing that a specific source file can be loaded by Designer, look at the csproj file for the Compile Include tag of the appropriate source file and remove the SubType tag underneath it.