"." in Project Name or Namespace name

[Bob Johnson]

I'm just wondering if it is perfectly acceptable to have one or more period
(.) in the name of Visual Studio projects and in namespace names?

I would hope not - but I'm having some flashbacks of the nightmares we
endured when the world went away from the old DOS 8.3 file names to long
names and a bunch of software choked when file names had multiple periods.
And yes - I understand that we're a long ways away from DOS... Just paranoid
I guess... but thought I'd ask before I get too far and have problems. I'm
wanting to put periods in the name of a new library project and I understand
there are implications for the deafult namespace etc.

[Troy]

Its fine to have "." in there.
CompanyName.TechnologyName[.Feature][.Design]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...18(VS.71).aspx

Troy

Bob Johnson wrote:

I'm just wondering if it is perfectly acceptable to have one or more period
(.) in the name of Visual Studio projects and in namespace names?

I would hope not - but I'm having some flashbacks of the nightmares we
endured when the world went away from the old DOS 8.3 file names to long
names and a bunch of software choked when file names had multiple periods.
And yes - I understand that we're a long ways away from DOS... Just paranoid
I guess... but thought I'd ask before I get too far and have problems. I'm
wanting to put periods in the name of a new library project and I understand
there are implications for the deafult namespace etc.

[Scott M.]

It's not a problem at all. Yes, we are a long way from DOS now (and not in
Kansas anymore). The "dot-notation" you are refering to is considered to be
a best practice for separating notation groups.
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I'm just wondering if it is perfectly acceptable to have one or more
period (.) in the name of Visual Studio projects and in namespace names?

I would hope not - but I'm having some flashbacks of the nightmares we
endured when the world went away from the old DOS 8.3 file names to long
names and a bunch of software choked when file names had multiple periods.
And yes - I understand that we're a long ways away from DOS... Just
paranoid I guess... but thought I'd ask before I get too far and have
problems. I'm wanting to put periods in the name of a new library project
and I understand there are implications for the deafult namespace etc.