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

I finally ended using a quite pragmatic approach for that problem. Tested with VS 2012, but should be the same for 2010 or 2013. Note that I do have some simpler WPF-forms where I want to have the Designer - but not for the complex ones, where it is super-slow and partly not working anyway. In this case I fire up following batch script:

:loop
taskkill /F /IM XDesProc.exe
timeout /t 10 /nobreak
goto loop