>How in the @$#& am I suppose to create a view using the so called View Designer?
>
>I'm so frustrated.

Not surprised :) The V/D bites.

The V/D can be used to create a view as long as it's not complicated.
There's eView (<-- should be a link) here in Files section that you might want to try for a visual designer.

Or you can do it all in code. I do this and extract single view only using GenDBCX GetView() function.