# Friday, September 19, 2003

Eric Gunnerson is asking whether they should change the default behaviour for displaying forms in Visual Studio so that when you double click on a file in the Solutions Explorer it opens either the code window or the form design window based on the way you last viewed the file.

I think he should definitely go with this idea.  I'm finding it so frustrating that the .asmx web service files are always opening on the designer view and I have to keep remembering to right-click or choose 'view code' from the hyperlink displayed on the designer.  I can't say much about straight forms as I haven't worked on a project that uses them heavily yet, but definitely for web services, defaulting to the format last viewed is an improvement.