Project properties define characteristics of the project and enable you to control a project's behavior among other things. Different properties are set by default for different types of projects.
- To see a summary of the project properties, select the project or solution in the Solution Explorer. By default, the Properties window is displayed below the Solution Explorer.
If the Properties window is not visible, you can show it by clicking View (> Other Windows) > Properties Window.
A description of the selected property is displayed dynamically at the bottom of the Properties window. To turn this description on and off, right-click in the description.
- To display the full project properties, right-click the project in Solution Explorer and click Properties.
- Go to the COBOL page of the properties, to display the selected properties for building the project. Notice that:
- Configuration is set to Active (Debug)
- Managed code is set to No, because the current application is being built as native COBOL
- Generate debugging information is checked
- COBOL dialect is set to non-mainframe
- Output path shows where the build files will be put
- Go to the Debug page and notice that Start project is checked, so that the application starts debugging in the current project.
- Browse the other properties pages to see what is available and what is set by default for a console application.