What is the maximum amount of characters or length for a Directory?

Question

What is the maximum amount of characters that a typical path can contain for a directory when using C#?

For example C:\\test\\ has 7 characters in lengt

Answer 1

You can have UNC paths longer than 260 if you prepend the path with a \\?. See the following Naming Files, Paths and Namespaces on MSDN.