Entries filed under DevTools: Team Foundation System, Visual Studio, and other tools

Team Build and the 260 character path limitation
Posted: Mar 02, 2008 10:00 AM by Michael Lang
Filed under: DevTools

When doing automated builds you may encounter one of the following error messages:

  • error MSB3021: Unable to copy file...
  • TF10128... contains more than the allowed 259 characters.
    Or
  • CS0006: Metadata file .dll could not be found

In this post I explain why a build may work perfectly in Visual Studio, but fail when built with the TFS automated build system.

Web Application Projects vs Web Site Projects
Posted: Feb 10, 2007 1:33 PM by Michael Lang

In this post I talk about the Web Site vs Web Application debate. I describe the arguments for and against using each project type and my rational for continuing to use both of them.

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