VS2010 Remove grid lines in WPF Design View

Question

Is there a way to remove the annoying grid lines in the design view of Visual Studio 2010? Or at least style them to fade them off?

I'm not referring to the Grid component, but to the design view in WPF which draws visual lines over and around every components, making screens look like a soup in design view.

Answer 1

In Blend, if you disable Show Handles (in View > Show Handles, or F9), you can turn off those stupid blue lines.

Answer 2

Pretty sure you can derive from Grid and build design-time meta-data assembly with it as described on this msdn blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/01/13/wpf-silverlight-design-time-code-sharing-part-i.aspx#required

The reason I suggest deriving from Grid is because you want the designer to load new meta data for the type. Hopefully this implementation will override default behaviour although I have not tried myself.

Can I ask why you want to make this change? I am interested.