DISabling the builtin designer?
Redesigner is a tool to generate and validate ASP.NET designer files
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I don't see much use to this tool unless I can disable/replace the builtin VS designer file generator. Is there any way to do that?
The built-in Visual Studio designer-file generator is a fixed component of Visual Studio. It will do what it wants, and there's no way to tell Visual Studio not to use it, unfortunately.
What Redesigner offers is a solution for when Visual Studio's built-in generator fails or misbehaves, which happens more and more often the bigger your website gets. The various tricks --- Convert-to-Web-Application, open-and-close the Designer, rebuild your DLLs, rename your files, restart Visual Studio --- those often doesn't work for a lot of people, and they're all hacky at best. Redesigner provides an alternative for when you're stuck with an .aspx file that Visual Studio refuses to process.
I am in process of creating a Visual Studio add-in that will allow you to right-click on a .aspx file or even an entire folder and force the files to regenerate (or validate), which makes the built-in designer-file generator less of an issue; when it works, you can ignore it, and when it fails, it's easy to detect it and fix it.