Question

I have a solution in Visual Studio 2010 which contains multiple projects. All of those projects share a common directory for header files and library files. When I go to Tools->Directories it tells me this approach is deprecated and that there is a separate Directory properties for each project. Surely Microsoft don’t expect me to now add these settings to each project individually. Is there not a top level property which all projects inherit and then this project specific property? Am I missing something or do I really need to do this per project now?

Answer 1

What you want to use are called PropertySheets.

When used right they are very powerful, especially for large projects.

With these you can specify much more common things, than just only different directories.