Long Paths in .NET

For those that followed the Long Path in .NET series that Kim Hamilton wrote a while back, you will be pleased to know that we just released a library over on CodePlex that adds Long Path support to .NET. This project is one of four new experimental projects + source that we released on our new BCL CodePlex site:

BigRational
BigRational builds on the BigInteger introduced in .NET Framework 4 to create an arbitrary-precision rational number class.

Long Path
This library provides functionality to make it easier to work with paths that are longer than the current 259 character limit.

PerfMoniter
PerfMonitor is a command-line tool for profiling the system using Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). PerfMonitor is built on top of the TraceEvent library.

TraceEvent
An experimental library that greatly simplifies reading Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events.

Expect to see a lot more of these experimental libraries in the future from the BCL. Play around with them and tell us what you think.

Published Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:49 PM by David Kean
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:59 AM by Jason Haley

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Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:13 PM by Hernan

# re: Long Paths in .NET

Hi Dave,

Great news. I'm using ETW events and I was looking at some trusted code to use for reading ETW. Do you recommend this library over other custom implementations?

Regards,

Hernan