Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Visual Studio Wish List: Default to Code View in Windows Forms?

This one has been bugging me for a while (since the first version of VS .NET), but why is it that the HTML Designer options in Visual Studio 2005 allow you to default to Design or Code view, but that option is not available under the Windows Forms Designer options?

I'm working in the code most of the time, and am in the visual designer just a very small percentage of the time, so why can't I set the default to just open the code window?

Crazy.

Hopefully this has been fixed in Visual Studio .NET 2008, but I'm not keeping my hopes up. Alternatively, perhaps this option will be available in the WPF form designer, which would be an improvement - and I can see myself moving in that direction.

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