Invalid Sourcesafe Syntax checking in files

[Leftyfarrell]

Hey all, Wanted to share something I believe to be true. Since adopting .NET we're trying to use meaningful solution and project names in VS.NET 2003 as recommended by Microsoft. (eg. CompanyName.ClientName.ProjectName.AppName_soln and CompanyName.ClientName.ProjectName.AppName ) As a result, our file paths have grown in length. Recently when trying to check files into VSS, I received a very unhelpful error message that read Invalid Sourcesafe Syntax "filename", where filename was my ordinary looking source code filename. According to VSS docs, the limit for project path and filename is 259 chars. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms381416.aspx However, my tests seemed to indicate that 217 chars would work, and 218 chars would fail.