Disable Table Designer in Visual Studio

Question

I have recently upgraded my database projects to VS2012 and am now faced with the abomination of the table designer (I'm sure there are people that love it, but I am a Sql developer and find coding table definitions by hand much faster). Is there any way of turning the damned thing off? I have tried (well believe I have) all the options under Tools -> Options -> Database Tools with no effect.

Things attempted

1. I've attempted to remove the Designer from the " C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\Microsoft\\SQLDB\\Designers " directory, but that just caused errors when attempting to open a table script.
2. I've attempted to rename the registry key pointing to the designer ( HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\11.0_Config\\Packages{74bc53b2-d9b7-4579-abe5-43d11a7ecd03} ) but the registry key magically renames itself and comes back.

Answer 1

In the Solution Explorer :

• right click on yourTable.sql table definition
• click on Open with...
• choose Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, T-SQL Editor
• click on Set as Default
• click Ok

The steps above will insure that you always will open the table definitions with the T-SQL editor. You can revert back to the default setting by choosing the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, Editor Selector .