Windows has a limitation of 259 characters in paths. Unfortunately, this is starting to cause problems for us due to some of our Service Reference names.
For example, we have our TFS branch with an already-long path, and then .NET service references nearly double this because they always use the fully-qualified namespace as the file name:
Some.Really.Long.Fully.Qualified.Namespace.Service.Reference.Name.datasource
AFAIK, you can't change the name of the service reference -- but Ihoping I'm wrong. Can this be done?
If not, are there any other possible workarounds to this annoying issue?
EDIT: Also, I know one obvious solution would be to shorten our namespaces and/or paths, but assume we can't do that in this case. :) I'm mainly trying to figure out how to control the file names for the service references.
UPDATE: The root issue I'm having is where TFS is not letting me get latest on a particular branch. Here is the exact error:
TF205022: The following path contains more than the allowed 259 characters: [C:\Some-really-long-259-character-path-here]