GUI to include a .prop file in a VS 2010 project?

Question

Visual Studio 2010 has no longer uses .vsprops files and instead uses .props files.

To include a .vsprops file in a Visual Studio 2008 project, one could right-click the project icon in the Solution Explorer panel, choose Properties, go to the Configuration Properties | General section, and modify the Inherited Project Property Sheets property to contain a list of .vsprops paths. One could also modify the Visual Studio 2008 project file directly.

Is there a way in the Visual Studio 2010 GUI to include .props files in a project? The Inherited Project Property Sheets property seems to have been removed. If manual editing of the project file is the only way to include .props files, where can one find documentation on doing it?

I'm not talking about adding a .props file to the list of files in the project, I mean how do I tell the project to use a .props file.

Answer 1

That hasn't changed. Use View > Other Windows > Property Manager. Navigate the tree view there and open the configuration you want to change. Right-click > Add New.

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If you don't see this menu option then you can repair the menu with Tools > Customize, Commands tab. Select "View" and click Add Command. Select "View" in the left listbox, "Property Manager" in the right one. That adds the command back to your View menu.

It is odd that it is missing of course, could have happened when you installed VS2010 and it imported your VS2008 settings. This feature is not flawless, judging from other programmers' questions about it, beware that you might be missing out on other menu items. If you haven't customized anything extensively then Tools > Import and Export Settings, Reset might be a good idea.

Answer 2

You can go to View -> Other Windows -> Property Manager to open up the list of property sheets and so on. This works in both VS 2008 & 2010.