Wednesday, November 18, 2009

TFS folders and the evil “&”

So I tried to make a folder within TFS called “R&D and it let me.  No surprises…yet.  After moving a project into this folder, I ran the project to make sure all paths/references were still intact.  The project ran fine so things seemed okay. 

It wasn’t until I tried opening a form up in Designer view that I got a weird error:

DesignerError

How is it that the project can build and run fine, but I’m seeing this?  XML?  I don’t have anything related to XML in the form code, so what gives?  After doing some searching on the internet, it seems that the “&” character anywhere in the path causes this issue.  Since my project was in the “R&D” folder, I was having this issue.  I renamed the folder and the problem went away…

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