In Visual Studio 2026, Property Sheet (a .props file), which was an important and useful feature of earlier Visual Studios, is not needed for CMake Project, which does not depend on .sln or .vcxproj ...

will be created. You can generate them directly in the source tree (i.e. the SFML root directory), but it will then be polluted with a lot of garbage: a complete hierarchy of build files, object files ...