Tag: VisualStudio2010

Ah, the good, old Visual Studio 2010! It was the first version of Visual Studio I used professionally in my day-to-day work. I’ve had to fire up Visual Studio 2008 every now and then due to legacy projects, though. Even VS2010 was a huge improvement over my earlier IDE experiences – I had been using Eclipse with WindowBuilder for Java projects, and Aptana Studio for PHP. Compared to them, VS2010 was surprisingly sleek and well-working experience!

Like so many other people, I feel like I did struggle with making SVN, SharePoint projects and VS work together, but that was a very occasional struggle.

Too long deployment path

Fixing the error: “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.”

This post describes a few different ways of fixing the “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.” error. One can encounter this issue when trying to…Continue reading Fixing the error: “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.”