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Monday, July 07, 2008 4:40 PM

Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux [Kim Hamilton]

My original part 3 blog caused confusion, mostly because it didn’t tie together loose ends and explain that an immediate .NET “solution” is at best partial. To minimize confusion and answer questions in the comments, I decided to do a complete overhaul
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:00 AM

Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 [Kim Hamilton]

Updated 6/10/08 2:20pm: clarified details of proposed solution Here it is, Part 3 of the long path series , which started over a year ago. I apologize for leaving you hanging; the BCL team has been busy lighting up the web . Because of the delay, I’ll
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Monday, March 26, 2007 6:04 PM

Long Paths in .NET, Part 2 of 3: Long Path Workarounds [Kim Hamilton]

For now, our suggested workaround for users that encounter the MAX_PATH issue is to rearrange directories so that the names are shorter. This may sound like a cop out, but this is ultimately easier on users because of (1) limited tool support (i.e. Explorer
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:10 AM

Long Paths in .NET, Part 1 of 3 [Kim Hamilton]

Let’s start by looking at one of the more interesting exception messages in the BCL, the PathTooLongException: [PathTooLongException]: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters,
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:50 PM

Normalized paths are tricky [Brian Grunkemeyer]

A customer recently asked how to compare to see whether two paths refer to the same file, and he wanted to do this using a canonical path name. This turns out to be a non-trivial problem. Instead of talking about canonical path names which are somewhat
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