Patent ID: 7089502

Claim:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for generating a property sheet having a shell supported property sheet page and an application supported property sheet page in a data processing system having a video display and a processor running an operating system that includes a shell, the computer-readable components comprising: a shell property component for providing shell defined property sheet pages corresponding to at least one object associated with an application installed under the operating system and belonging to an object class, the shell supported property sheet page component presenting a shell supported property in association with the object class; an application property component for presenting an application supported property sheet page corresponding to the object and defined by the application; a processing component for integrating shell supported property sheet pages and application supported property sheet pages into a property sheet; and a display component for obtaining a request to display one or more property sheet pages associated with the object and to provide access to the shell supported property sheet pages and the application supported property sheet pages via the property sheet.