Visual Studio 2015 - Properties window is blank sometimes?

Question

Environment: Win 10, VS 2015, patched to the kazoo.

Behaviour: The VS 2015 (as of Aug 2015) has a blank properties window when opening some projects and clicking on some visual items (winforms).

Oddly - when I close VS 2015, the properties window suddenly populates with data just prior to closing, as if the data is there, but just not properly shown.

Fix attempts:

• Restarting VS 2015 doesn't appear to fix the issue. For some reason this view element seems 'confused' about which property it's showing content for, as clicking other winforms controls fails to update the property view
• Restarting the entire OS (a hyperV VM in my case) fixes it.

I wouldn't mind just a restart of VS 2015, but the entire OS is both oddly required and frankly an annoyance.

Answer 1

Just select the empty properties window and press CTRL + S. It will reload.

I have no clue why this works, but it does.