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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:11:19+00:00

Does anyone know which characters are allowed in a VS project name? Is there

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Does anyone know which characters are allowed in a VS project name? Is there a reference somewhere?

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    • Cannot contain any of the following characters: / ? : & \ * ” < > | # %
    • Cannot contain unicode characters
    • Cannot contain surrogate characters
    • Cannot be reserved names including ‘CON’, ‘AUX’, ‘PRN’, ‘COM1’ or ‘LPT2’
    • Cannot be ‘.’ or ‘..’

    I obtained this information by trying to create a project with a character I knew would not be accepted. I.e. a character that is not allowed in NTFS file paths. I.e. I used a project with the name | to get the error.

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