title: What is the difference between Private Dim and Private Property?
body: <p>What is the difference between these two implementation methods of a private variable?  They seem functionally equivalent to me and the compiler doesn't seem to care.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Private myTempDir As String = TempAppDir &amp; "\" &amp; Name
  Private Property MyTempDir As String = TempAppDir &amp; "\" &amp; Name
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