How to open code on double cick on form by default?

Question

Is there an extension for Visual Studio 2010 for opening code for forms, components etc. in WinForms application projects on double click in solution explorer by default (and in designer view via context menu)?

Cornucopia

Answer 1

item -> right click -> Open With -> Source Code (Text) Editor -> press Set as Default button

Terza

The specific option is "CSharp Editor". I assume it is "Visual Basic Editor" and "C++ Editor" for those respective languages, as well. – Blastocyst

Answer 2

you can set visual studio's default editor to be the code view rather than the form view. Just right-click and choose Open With... then you can set the default in there.

Delastre

Answer 3

You can press F7 to toggle between designer and code.

Jellyfish

Answer 4

Not sure about double click, but if you select the file in Project Explorer (ex: Form1.cs) and press F7 you see the code.

Poona

Answer 5

If you want Visual Studio to avoid opening designer for Forms or Controls, just decorate your class with DesignerCategoryAttribute

[DesignerCategory("")]

If for some reasons you want opposite behavior and you want to force opening your class in designer by default, which might be caused when you have more than one class inheriting from Form in the same file, just specify category.

[DesignerCategory("Form")]

Heuer

Answer 6

Just go to "Tools > Options > Web Forms Design" and select Start Pages in Source View.

Tourneur