Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

[Michael A. Covington]

I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another file,
Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.

Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather than in
View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)

It compiles fine.

[Jeff Johnson]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

"Michael A. Covington" <mc@uga.eduwrot e in message
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>I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another file,
>Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>
Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather than
in View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)

I doubt it. Think about it. The code in Form1.cs is more than likely just
functional code, not the stuff that defines the UI (that's in
Form1.Designer. cs), but what happens when you double-click on Form1? The
designer opens. It would be kind of nice if the IDE would open the designer
only when you double-click the .Designer file and open everything else in
code mode, but I'm sure as many people would complain about that as would
enjoy it.

[Mel Weaver]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

If you are talking about when you double click on the file name in Solution
Explorer, just right click and view code.

"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.s pamwrote in message
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"Michael A. Covington" <mc@uga.eduwrot e in message
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>>I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another file,
>>Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>>
>Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather than
>in View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)

>
I doubt it. Think about it. The code in Form1.cs is more than likely just
functional code, not the stuff that defines the UI (that's in
Form1.Designer. cs), but what happens when you double-click on Form1? The
designer opens. It would be kind of nice if the IDE would open the
designer only when you double-click the .Designer file and open everything
else in code mode, but I'm sure as many people would complain about that
as would enjoy it.
>

[Jeff Johnson]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

"Mel Weaver" <MelRemoveSpam@ Insdirect.comwr ote in message
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If you are talking about when you double click on the file name in
Solution Explorer, just right click and view code.

Yes, of course, but I assumed the poster was talking about the "default"
action, i.e., what happens when you double-click, not that he HAD to open it
in Design view and then switch to Code view from there.

[MC]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

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"Mel Weaver" <MelRemoveSpam@ Insdirect.comwr ote in message
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>If you are talking about when you double click on the file name in
>Solution Explorer, just right click and view code.

Yes, of course, but I assumed the poster was talking about the "default"
action, i.e., what happens when you double-click, not that he HAD to open it
in Design view and then switch to Code view from there.

Right; I was hoping I could find something to put in the file to keep Designer from thinking it's a form. Also, I'm afraid of corrupting Form1.Designer. cs by running Designer on the wrong code file -- although the way they're named, that shouldn't happen.

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

Michael A. Covington wrote:

I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another
file, Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>
Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather
than in View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)
>
It compiles fine.

Every IComponent implementing class has this behavior: it will force
vs.net to open the designer for the type of class.

You can disable this by annotating the class with an attribute. After
that, you can double click it and code is shown. Be sure to type the
full namespace in the attribute even though it's in the using blocks.
attribute to use on the class:
[System.Componen tModel.Designer Category("Code" )]

Haven't tested it on a form, but IMHO it should work.

FB

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[Jesse Houwing]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

Hello mc,

"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.s pamwrote in message
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>"Mel Weaver" <MelRemoveSpam@ Insdirect.comwr ote in message
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>>If you are talking about when you double click on the file name in
>>Solution Explorer, just right click and view code.
>>>

>Yes, of course, but I assumed the poster was talking about the
>"default" action, i.e., what happens when you double-click, not that
>he HAD to open it in Design view and then switch to Code view from
>there.
>>

Right; I was hoping I could find something to put in the file to keep
Designer from thinking it's a form. Also, I'm afraid of corrupting
Form1.Designer. cs by running Designer on the wrong code file --
although the way they're named, that shouldn't happen.

even if you open your Form1Op.cs, the designer will still write all its stuff
to the .designer.cs file, so no worries there...


--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

[MC]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

"Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" <perseus.usenet NOSPAM@xs4all.n lwrote in message news:Oa9RoxmOJH A.4760@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...

Every IComponent implementing class has this behavior: it will force
vs.net to open the designer for the type of class.

You can disable this by annotating the class with an attribute. After
that, you can double click it and code is shown. Be sure to type the
full namespace in the attribute even though it's in the using blocks.
attribute to use on the class:
[System.Componen tModel.Designer Category("Code" )]

Haven't tested it on a form, but IMHO it should work.

Thanks -- if it works, that's exactly what I was looking for.

[Jeff Johnson]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

"Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" <perseus.usenet NOSPAM@xs4all.n lwrote in message
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You can disable this by annotating the class with an attribute. After
that, you can double click it and code is shown. Be sure to type the full
namespace in the attribute even though it's in the using blocks.
attribute to use on the class:
[System.Componen tModel.Designer Category("Code" )]

Holy crap, I'm putting this in EVERY service I've ever written right now!!

[Jeff Johnson]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.s pamwrote in message
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>You can disable this by annotating the class with an attribute. After
>that, you can double click it and code is shown. Be sure to type the full
>namespace in the attribute even though it's in the using blocks.
>attribute to use on the class:
>[System.Componen tModel.Designer Category("Code" )]

>
Holy crap, I'm putting this in EVERY service I've ever written right now!!

Didn't work for services.

[Chris Dunaway]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

On Oct 29, 3:40 pm, "Michael A. Covington" <m...@uga.eduwr ote:

I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another file,
Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>
Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather than in
View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)
>
It compiles fine.

Can you right click on the file in question, choose Open With....
Then select the code editor and click the "Set as Default" button.
Thereafter, when you double click the file, it should open in the code
editor.

Chris

[Jeff Johnson]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?

"Chris Dunaway" <dunawayc@gmail .comwrote in message
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>I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another file,
>Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>>
>Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather than
>in
>View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)
>>
>It compiles fine.

>
Can you right click on the file in question, choose Open With....
Then select the code editor and click the "Set as Default" button.
Thereafter, when you double click the file, it should open in the code
editor.

I don't know about Michael's issue, but that certainly worked for my
services!! Thanks a bunch!

[Michael A. Covington]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?


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"Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" <perseus.usenet NOSPAM@xs4all.n lwrote in message
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>

>Every IComponent implementing class has this behavior: it will force
>vs.net to open the designer for the type of class.
>>
>You can disable this by annotating the class with an attribute. After
>that, you can double click it and code is shown. Be sure to type the
>full namespace in the attribute even though it's in the using blocks.
>attribute to use on the class:
>[System.Componen tModel.Designer Category("Code" )]
>>
>Haven't tested it on a form, but IMHO it should work.

>
Thanks -- if it works, that's exactly what I was looking for.
>

It stops Designer from working on Form1 at all. I was only wanting to stop
Designer from working on one of the files that is a partial class Form1.
For now, I gave up on splitting Form1 into partial classes and moved the
code back into Form1.cs as a region.

[Michael A. Covington]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?


"Chris Dunaway" <dunawayc@gmail .comwrote in message
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On Oct 29, 3:40 pm, "Michael A. Covington" <m...@uga.eduwr ote:

>I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another file,
>Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>>
>Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather than
>in
>View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)
>>
>It compiles fine.

>
Can you right click on the file in question, choose Open With....
Then select the code editor and click the "Set as Default" button.
Thereafter, when you double click the file, it should open in the code
editor.

*duh!* yes... that sounds like exactly what is needed. Thanks.

[Michael A. Covington]

Re: Stop Designer from popping up on a .cs file?


"Michael A. Covington" <mc@uga.eduwrot e in message
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>
"Chris Dunaway" <dunawayc@gmail .comwrote in message
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>On Oct 29, 3:40 pm, "Michael A. Covington" <m...@uga.eduwr ote:

>>I had a lot of code in Form1.cs, so I moved some of it into another
>>file,
>>Form1Op.cs, which is still a partial class of Form1 : Form.
>>>
>>Whenever I open Form1Op.cs, it wants to open in Form Designer rather
>>than in
>>View Code. How can I change that? (Or can I?)
>>>
>>It compiles fine.

>>
>Can you right click on the file in question, choose Open With....
>Then select the code editor and click the "Set as Default" button.
>Thereafter, when you double click the file, it should open in the code
>editor.

>
*duh!* yes... that sounds like exactly what is needed. Thanks.

And it isn't. Even THAT won't let me set different default behavior for 2
different files that are partial classes of the same class. Ah well...