If I recall, Paul Stovell showed how to do this at Code Camp. I think he said that you right click the xaml file (in solution explorer), click 'open with'. Then set the default to open in just the code editor.
-David Burela -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ton...@tpg.com.au Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 2:21 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Visual 2010 XAML Design View delays Hi all, One of my gripes regarding Visual Studio 2010 is just how long it takes for that XAML Design view to load. It takes ages. On my machine it can take 20 seconds to load. On one of my colleagues I've seen it take between 40 seconds and a minute to load. It's an absolute pain. So when it loads the first thing I do is hit ESC. That can halt the designer load (not always an improvement in load time, however). Then I hit the "flip" button which puts the XAML code at the top and the user interface view at the bottom, and then I hide the user interface Design view (it would have been easier if the user interface Design view was already at the bottom, then I would just have to hide it!) This shows the raw xaml taking up the whole pane, and if I want the Design view I can just click the expand button. Of course, you can change the default program to open the XAML page, but then you lose intellisense. Does anyone know of any other way to hide the Design view until I specifically need it? Regards, Tony
