When using View Code on a XOML file, designer view is displayed.

Question

In Visual Studio: When you right-click on a xoml file in the solution explorer and select "View Code" it takes you to the designer (design view).

Steps to Reproduce

• create a xoml
• add something into the code-behind [I used C#]
• Close the code-behind and designer
• right-click the xoml from the Solution Explorer
• Select "View Code"

Actual Results

• Designer view is opened.

Expected Results

• Code view should open.

Answer 1

I found this question elsewhere, unanswered, so here's the solution/workaround I discovered.

• right-click on a xoml file in Solution Explorer.
• select "Open With..."
• select "Xml Editor"
• click "Set as Default"
• click "OK"

You should now be able to view the code.

NOTE:
Different settings for the default opener have odly (stupidly?) different behaviors. On my VS2008 with .NET 3.5 SP1:
Workflow Designer: only allows designer view.
XML Editor: only allows code view.
Source Code (Text) Editor: defaults to designer view, but allows code view.