Re: It always makes me smile...
You can do that in Windows. Start up your favourite text editor, type some code, save it, and compile it using msbuild. No Visual Studio required at all. GOOD LUCK.
You will have to position every object yourself, in code, adjust every setting yourself, in code, constantly look up the settings for objects because there is no IntelliSense in your text editor... and so on. You won't have any sense of the 'Visual' in Visual Studio but at least you'll be able to move things pixel by pixel, manually.
You can edit code with vi, sure enough, but then you can do complex maths on an abacus - slowly. Things have moved on. The VS IDE isn't perfect, but for software requiring a visual interface, don't use a text editor and nothing else.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
