Path too long error when building a windows azure service

Question

I have been trying to publish my service to windows azure. The service consists of a single webRole, however I have added remote login functionality published it and built i

Answer 1

When you run a cloud service on the development fabric, the development fabric uses a temporary folder to store a number of files including local storage locations, cached binaries, configuration, diagnostics information and cached compiled web site content.

By default this location is: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\dftmp

Credit goes to Jim Nakashima of Microsoft : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jnak/2010/01/14/windows-azure-resolving-the-path-is-too-long-after-being-fully-qualified-error-message/

In order to change the temporary folder, a user environment variable has to be created :

It is named _CSRUN_STATE_DIRECTORY

Give it a value of short named directory like :

c:\AzureTemp

Don't forget to restart Visual Studio in order to have the environmennt variables to be read again

It fixed many compilations problem !