Reputation: 249

Project Properties Windows Blank in Visual Studio 2022 Community 17.1.0

I'm trying to access the project properties but the window appears blank. I've tried web solutions View>Properties Window, f4, right click on project folder>properties, Also tried resetting import/export settings, searching for specific tab

everything results in a blank window.. Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 22

Answers (15)

Bob

Reputation: 315

Something to try: close and reopen the project, but don't open it back up using Visual Studio. Instead, navigate to the .sln project file and double click on that.

Upvotes: 1

Gian

Reputation: 51

The only solution for me was drag the window with the mouse! It immediately populate it! Then I leaved the window in its original position.

VS Community 2022 17.9.6

Upvotes: 0

Kelly Jones

Reputation: 21

Problems with properties window not updating when in view designer window.

It sometimes will not populate the properties window with the data of the object you have clicked on in the design view. To fix this I right click the .cs file in the Solution Explorer and change to view code, then right click again and select view designer and poof like magic the properties window start working again.

Upvotes: 2

lynnewu

Reputation: 131

I ran into this same problem with VS 2022 v17.4.0 Preview 1.0 in a C# Windows forms app. Closing and opening the solution/VS didn't have any effect.

After I closed all the open tabs and reopened a file, the Properties pane was populating correctly.

Edit: After closing tabs and opening the properties if its still blank move the Window and it shows!

Upvotes: 13

David Brooks

Reputation: 21

This just started happening to me in VS2022. I know I'm coming late to the question, but it's the most recent I could find.

In any case, I took a guess, deleted the .csproj.user file, and restarted VS. That did the trick.

Upvotes: 0

Blade

Reputation: 11

Had this issue for ages where properties wouldn't populate, properties finally populated after I had opened the VS app as admin. - Hope this helps others.

Upvotes: 1

IvanF.

Reputation: 543

I was able to consistently reproduce the bug by double clicking the Build Action value.
This was making the content of the Properties Window to disappear.
To work around it, I've created a new "abc.json" file and set the values of Build Action and Copy to Output Directory from the dropdown.

Upvotes: 2

quaabaam

Reputation: 1972

As IVanF. states in his answer above, I too experience this issue when I accidentally double click in the 'Build Action' option within the 'Properties' pane. For me the file type is a .cshtml file.

The easiest solution I've found is to exclude the file and then include the file.

Right click the file and select 'Exclude From Project' .
Enable 'Show All Files' at the top of the Solution Explorer.
Right click the file again and then select 'Include In Project'
Reset the properties as needed for the 'Copy to Output Directory' and 'Build Action' as they will return to the default values which may not be wanted if it's a .cshtml file

Upvotes: 0

BimmerM3

Reputation: 399

This just happened to me when I double clicked on the Build Action property.

I finally opened the project file in a text editor and noticed that the XML defining that file in an item group started with "Page" instead of "None".

<Page Include="myFile.txt" />

instead of

<None Remove="myFile.txt" />

Manually editing the project file back to "None" fixed the problem.

Seems that the root cause is that double clicking automatically selects the next option in the Build Action list, and the next option is "Page".

Upvotes: 1

AlejandroDG

Reputation: 773

I manually edited .csprj file and removed all entries related with [file].json, saved and the file's properties are now showing

Upvotes: 0

Davor

Reputation: 926

Going away on another opened tab and coming back starts populating properties window.

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Current Version 17.5.3

Upvotes: 6

Suhib Asrawi

Reputation: 11

1 Make sure that your build program is not running (use task manager to end that process if needed) and make sure that you can rebuild your project without errors. 2 Restart Visual Studio as an Administrator. Good Luck For You All ^_^

Upvotes: 0