BUG: Long Project Name is Converted to a Short Project Name

• Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

A Visual Basic standard executable project is assigned a long filename. When you open this project file from the Windows Explorer instead of from the Visual Basic IDE, the project filename is shortened to an 8.3 format. When you execute the Save As menu command, the short filename is used as the default. Additionally, if you access the Path property of the App object, the path is returned in the 8.3 format.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Start a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.

2. Change the Name property of the project to a long filename, such as LongProjectName.

3. Save the project and exit Visual Basic.

4. From the Windows NT Workstation Explorer, double-click the project file you just saved to open the project in Visual Basic.

   BUG: The filename appears in the Project Explorer as a short filename. For example, if you saved your project as LongProjectName, the project name appears as LongP~1 in the Project Explorer. If you execute the Save As menu command, the default file name is also LongP~1.