What's the best alternative to VisualStudio for WPF development if you don't need a visual designer and 99% of Studio's bells and whistles?

Question

IDE

From time immemorial, VisualStudio is such a fancy thing that hardly anyone uses it at least 50%. I have never needed almost any of these features, all I need from the IDE is a powerful editor with smart contextual hints and refactorings (the main thing is renaming a function / variable - this is simply necessary, I also love the ReSharper feature - converting a loop into a LINQ query) , a debugger (in principle, you can do without it by debugging through the output) and a visual form designer. Now I'm studying WPF and came to the conclusion that with this technology, a visual designer (in fact, the most technologically complex of the necessary parts of an IDE) forms is not needed - XAML, like HTML, is more convenient to write manually. So I thought: why not abandon the heavyweight VS in general? Are there any adequate alternatives?
UPDATE: If you want to help - please answer the question, and do not advise to buy a new computer.

Answer 1

StrangeAttractor : isn't it time to just upgrade the hardware? on a 3-year-old laptop, I have 2 studios with a resharper + an android emulator. And there are no problems.
In terms of studio alternatives, everything is very sad. They are, they are few and it is almost impossible to use them.

Answer 2

It's not entirely clear what problem you're solving? Do the bells and whistles of the studio make it difficult for you?

Answer 3

1. Weak, but analogue of SharpDevelop with WPF. Because open-source it is convenient to view the Design-Time of problematic projects
2. If you do not need a XAML designer, you can hide it, only the editor will remain. But I'm sure the brakes are not for this reason.

Answer 4

At the expense of SharpDevelop - I myself use it when I need to open several projects at the same time. And as for the WPF editor, dig in the direction of Expression Blend, I didn’t use it myself, but they say drawing GUI is more convenient than in the standard one - it’s terribly slow.
In general, the standard editor becomes cool when working with bourgeois components. Now I'm working with DevExpress and there are a lot of very useful bells and whistles to it, using which even an extremely complex GUI is drawn with a mouse.