Joe,

As you progress, you'll find you use the designers less & less anyway, particularly for Views, although you may find yourself using it to make a basic SQL statement & then changing it from there.

As for the class designers, I only define data & grid objects in code, the rest I use the designer.

I can understand your problem though, I was annoyed that the designers couldn't do everything, but perhaps VP 7.0 will improve things.

Andy Crawshaw