Designers and Partial Classes

We played a bit with the Whidbey designers today, and then switched to View Code.

And oops, surprise - the code one sees is now a partial class. You can't see the designer-generated code anymore.

That sounds baaaaaad to me. I want to see the code the designer creates.

Please tell me that there is a way to see the code that the designers generate I am not sure I find the partial classes to be an improvement - while it is cleaner not to have the generated code folded away, if the price to pay is not to see this code ever again, I want the old way back!

Why not have tabs like in the HTML editor that show either code or the design Or a 2nd View Code option that shows the designer-generated code

Please don't hide this stuff. It may be easier for beginners, but I am pretty sure most users who are beyond beginner level would want to see the code!

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Designers and Partial Classes

Ceres
also, you shouldn't mess with the designer generated code .. rather do that in the constructor or OnLoad
CB812
There is... atop the solution explorer there is a button which (when hovered over) says "Show All Files". Press that button. Then Form1 will show up as a [+] in the solution. Expand that node and you should see a file called Form1.Designer.cs. This is where InitializeComponent is now.
Vachan
The easiest way to do it is to right-click on the InitializeComponent method call in the contructor and click on Go To Definition...
Designers and Partial Classes

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