I'm trying to get either CreateProcess or CreateProcessW to execute a process with a name < MAX_PATH characters but in a path that's greater than MAX_PATH characters. According to the docs at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425.aspx, I need to make sure lpApplicationName isn't NULL and then lpCommandLine can be up to 32,76...
Hi, I've found an issue with ASP.NET that I know at least has stumped one other person out there. We were trying to use an HttpModule to handle wildcard requests to a web application. The generated url is dynamic and could potentially be several hundred characters long. Unfortunately there appears to be a limitation in the aspnet...
I came across a c library for opening files given a Unicode filename. Before opening the file, it first converts the filename to a path by prepending "\\?\". Is there any reason to do this other than to increase the maximum number of characters allowed in the path, per this msdn article? It looks like these "\\?\" paths require the Uni...
BACKGROUND I need to write a tool using .NET version 2.0 at highest (using something off the shelf is not an option for this client for political, commercial, and confidentiality/trust reasons) to migrate files from one server to another over the network. The servers are file servers for local teams, and certain team folders need to be ...
ASP.NET 3.5, IIS7 In my Global.asax's Application_BeginRequest, I need to extract from the request's URL an entirely seperate URL that's been embedded in it without using query string. The solution I came up with was to hex-encode the entire target URL as if it were a directory, as follows: http://localhost/687474703A...etc...732E6D70...
Just had an interesting case. My software reported back a failure caused by a path being longer than MAX_PATH. The path was just a plain old document in My Documents, e.g.: C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\Some Stupid FOlder Name\A really ridiculously long file thats really very very very..........very long.pdf Total length 269 charac...
I'm looking at handling longer file paths in my windows application. Currently, I have a text box (edit box) in which a user can type an absolute file path. I then read that typed file path, using GetWindowText, into a string declared like so: TCHAR FilePath[MAX_PATH]; Obviously, here i'm relying on the MAX_PATH constant which limits m...