Disable designer in Visual Studio?

Question

I\'m using Visual C# Express to write Windows Form applications, and call me old school, but I don\'t like the designer. It is a nuisance and pollutes my project with lots o

Answer 1

If you don't want to use the designer, then don't use it ?

You can create a new form from scratch, without the designer generating any code by creating a new empty class, and let the class inherit from System.Windows.Forms.Form

Then, VS.NET will probably still indicate that your class is a Form, and you can still open it up in the designer if you want. (And drop controls on it).