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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Kathleen's Weblog : Visual Studio</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Visual Studio</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Video: Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/2009/06/12/video-auto-implemented-properties-in-visual-basic-2010.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:40:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9739534</guid><dc:creator>kmcgrath</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/comments/9739534.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9739534</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9739534</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;This week, I'm featuring the topic &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd293589(VS.100).aspx"&gt;Auto-Implemented Properties&lt;/a&gt;, which enables you to quickly specify a property of a class without having to write code to &lt;strong&gt;Get &lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;Set&lt;/strong&gt; the property.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I recently interviewed Doug Rothaus, the author of this topic, to learn more about this feature. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kmcgrath/Auto-Implemented-Properties-in-Visual-Basic-2010/" target="_blank"&gt;Video: Auto-Implement Properties&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kmcgrath/Auto-Implemented-Properties-in-Visual-Basic-2010/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/kathleen/WindowsLiveWriter/VideoAutoImplementedPropertiesinVisualBa_ADED/image_3.png" width="488" height="367" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;--Kathleen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9739534" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/tags/Visual+Basic/default.aspx">Visual Basic</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/tags/VS2010/default.aspx">VS2010</category></item><item><title>What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/2008/08/14/what-s-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8868108</guid><dc:creator>kmcgrath</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/comments/8868108.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8868108</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8868108</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;Here's a few pointers to articles that will get you started learning about some of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063.aspx"&gt;New Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;Learn about some of the new features and enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 SP1, including tools to create occasionally connected smart device applications, Power Packs 3.0 controls and components, and .NET Framework Client Profile support.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488004.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488004.aspx"&gt;Create Occasionally Connected Smart Device Applications&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt; Learn how to configure data synchronization in an occasionally connected smart device application. You will learn how to configure your smart device application to add a customer to the local database cache and then synchronize the changes with a remote database.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x97a5x3s.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x97a5x3s.aspx"&gt;Add Controls to Office Documents by Using an Application-Level Add-In&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;Learn about a new feature in Visual Studio Tools for Office that enables you to add controls to Microsoft Office Word documents and Microsoft Office Excel workbooks at run time by using application add-ins.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/che5h906.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/che5h906.aspx"&gt;&lt;B&gt;Generate Unsigned ClickOnce Deployment&lt;/B&gt; &lt;/A&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/che5h906.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/che5h906.aspx"&gt;Manifests&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt; Starting with Visual Studio SP1, signing ClickOnce manifests is optional. Learn how to generate unsigned ClickOnce manifests.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;--Kathleen&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8868108" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+Content/default.aspx">Visual Studio Content</category></item></channel></rss>