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Path longer than 248 char is throwing exception with GetFile() method of System.IO

Amit Choudhary

15y3.1k.NET

Hi guys,

Got a good question for you.
I'm trying to search a directory that have nested directories and target is to find some files.
and what is happening is Path longer than 248 char is throwing exception with GetFile() method of System.IO

I hope somebody have faced this problem. Any ideas how to search the files with path longer than 248 char.

Thanks.

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Amit Choudhary15y ago
Well after digging a lot of sites found the solution but it seems to that it only supported in 4.0 and i need this in 3.5.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-paths-in-net-part-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx

http://bcl.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Long%20Path&referringTitle=Documentation

if you have better than this then please share.. i'll appreciate that.

Thanks