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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, March 15, 2005 6:48 PM

Writing a Useful Windows Service in .NET in Five Minutes [Dave Fetterman]

When opening up a new project in Visual Studio, one finds many, many options for deploying your new killer app: Windows Applications, Console Applications, and Web Services are all popular choices. Even when creating a simple daemon-type process, however,
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:50 PM

Dead C Hacks: Reallocating or Changing an object's type in place in .NET? [Brian Grunkemeyer]

I was recently asked if there was a way to reallocate an object on top of another one, or to change the type of an object at runtime. This must have been a somewhat common practice in native C or C++ programs, perhaps something that C++'s placement new
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:16 PM

Managed Service Timeout during startup [Gang Peng]

It is not an easy job to write a windows service in unmanaged. There are many guidelines you need to follow to make the service work. Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 is good reference to learn how to write a windows service.
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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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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:46 PM

A query about providing more managed solutions [Kit George]

In a post to the BCL Website question page, nfactorial inquired if there is a timeline by which the BCL (and the .NET Framework in general) intends to have full support for unmanaged APIs? Nfactorial, we plan ot continue to expand the framework to have
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