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 v

Answer 1

Try turning off "Automatically Populate Toolbox" in addition to Open in XAML View (it's on the same dialog). This seems to really improve the performance as well.