File Name, File Path or Full File Path name is too long

The Error The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. The Problem I ha...

Windows Service Installer Error 1001: Cannot start service on computer %1 is not a valid Win32 application

Problem I was working on a windows service I haven’t looked at in ages. We recently updated some dlls that broke the windows service, so it needed to be re-tweaked. Every time I tried running th...

Windows Form Designer File Hell: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why a form I was working on was telling me that there was something wrong with a control in the designer and that is why the form wouldn’t render. I was gett...

Windows Forms Project Crashes Immediately on Startup

This was a more puzzling error that I have had to deal with in a long time. Every time I started up my windows forms application I was getting an immediate “Object reference not set to an instan...

Can’t Run Web Application After Renaming Web Project

This solution applies to many problems, but this one in particular. If you get a yellow screen of death when trying to run a Web Application in IISx that you just renamed, then chances are you didn...

SQL Server 2008 R2 will not install – Unhandled Exception has occurred in your application.

Buggy Installers This is a fun installation problem it almost made me pull my hair out trying to figure it out. Concerning installations I honestly feel that there is nothing worse than an Installer N...