So, what is Properties Section?

View sources files used to look like this:

<%Page Language= ... %>
<%
    int someProperty;
%>
... rest of view ...

The problem was that if you had no properties (or have used the DictionaryAdpater option described here) then you had to have an empty section, like:

<%Page Language= ... %>
<%
%>
... rest of view ...

Which is quite ugly.

So, following Lee Henson's suggestion, the properties section should now be wrapped in a special tag, and you can just omit that tag if you do not need to declare any properties.

The new syntax (new stuff in Bold Italic Font):

<%Page Language= ... %>
<aspView:properties>
 <%
    int someProperty;
%>
</aspView:properties>
... rest of view ...

You can download the new binaries, and a utility to migrate your existing views to the new syntax, from http://www.aspview.com