Is there anyway to remove Design (and Split) views from Visual Studio 2005/2008?

I am trying to find a way to disable Design / Split views from appearing in Visual Studio. I figure there's no way to completely disable it, but I still can't seem to find a way to remove the shortcut (F7), or remove the buttons from the bottom bar.

How do I get rid of split screen in Visual Studio?

From the Window menu, select Remove Split.

How do I split view in Visual Studio?

Developer Community. In Visual Studio Code, there is a Split Editor Right feature in the upper right hand corner of the screen, which essentially takes the active code tab and creates another split view on the right. This is a good feature as I may wish to view different part of code within the same file.

How to close split editor in VScode?

Ctrl+W close the active editor. Ctrl+K W close all editors in the editor group. Ctrl+K Ctrl+W close all editors.

The best I found was:

for HTML/ASPX - Options -> HTML Designer -> start pages in source view

for XAML -> Options -> Text Editor -> XAML -> Misc -> Always open documents in full XAML view