Cannot find Property Manager option in Visual Studio (not Express version)

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I need to work with the Property Sheet of a project. I followed instruction on msdn to try to find Property Manager under View, but I do not see Property Manager as a menu option under Tool. I only saw Property Pages and Properties Window. I tried both options but they do not seem to be where I can create a property sheet. My Visual Studio version is as follows: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0.30319 SP1Rel. Can anyone please give a pointer? Thanks.

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TLDR -- it's under View->Other Window, lads, it's there!! - mlvljr

11 Answers

25
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Try resetting your View menu, Property Manager should indeed be there.

  1. Go to Tools -> Customize.
  2. In the popup window, select the Commands tab.
  3. Select the Menu bar: button, and in the dropdown menu select View
  4. Click Reset All and confirm.

This should restore Property Manager to your View menu.

83
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I finally found mine under View->Other Windows, near the bottom.

19
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To see the Property Manager you need to have Expert Settings enabled. You can find this option in:

Tools -> Settings

17
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It is under View --> Other Windows --> Properties Manager. It works.

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This is how I restored the Property Manager menu item in Visual Studio 2013:

  1. Select Tools\Customize
  2. Select the Commands Tab and Menu Bar
  3. Under the dropdown beside Menu Bar, select "View | Other Windows" (or wherever you'd like to put it)
  4. Click "Add Command..." and select the View category
  5. Find and select Property Manager from Commands and click OK
2
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In my case it was just in the VIEW toolbar - almost in the bottom. Running VS2013 Pro update 3

2
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View > Property Manager or View > Other Windows > Property Manager, please try this

1
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None of the above answers worked for me. What worked for me is:

Tools -> Import and Export Settings -> Reset all settings -> ... -> Visual C++ Development Settings

1
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Despite I selected Visual C# settings at first use, for some reason, VC++ settings were ON, causing the visual components property window to not show up while pressing F4. Selecting Visual C# settings ( in Tools | Import and export settings... | Reset All ) made it work.

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Property Manager is a moot utility now. Since the property sheet is defined for each project, it can be edited by right clicking on the project and selecting properties. If you need to edit multiple projects once, just select all the projects you want to effect a change and do the right clicking trick. This brings up the same property pages as it would from Property Manager.

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Since none of the given answers worked for me here are my two cents.

Like any well hidden menu in Visual Studio this one can be found by opening Tools -> Options... -> Environment -> Keyboard and searching for "View.PropertyManager". There you can give it a global shortcut. While this only helps if you know the name of the menu or command you are looking for it's much faster go through a bunch of guesses this way than by randomly browsing menus.