DOCUMENT:Q179857  26-JAN-1998  [vbwin]
TITLE   :BUG: Long Project Name is Converted to a Short Project Name
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:WINDOWS:5.0
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:vb5all VBKBDesignTime VBKBEnv VBKBVB

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
   for Windows, version 5.0
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SYMPTOMS
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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
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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.

MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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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.

Additional query words: lfn long file name long filename short file name
short filename App.Path
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Keywords          : vb5all VBKBDesignTime VBKBEnv VBKBVB
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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