Terribly Exciting Day

Terribly exciting day yesterday. Nothing very amazing happened. I worked late and we had IHOP for dinner. Then I was up late watching our friends' kids while they went to the emergency room. It gave me a good excuse to get a lot of reading in, though, so I'm not complaining too much. I'm working on an application to export documents out of our portal onto a file system while recreating the directory structure on the portal. This has caused me to bump into the dreaded path-length issue that I have been skirting during the last three projects. So, I finally have to deal with it. It's rather annoying, actually. I spent all day yesterday writing a class to handle the main file operations we need using p/invoke methods from the Windows API. It's not nearly as much fun as it sounds. The special part of the fun occurs when the method doesn't work for some reason but doesn't bother to give me any debugging error information. It just fails and moves happily along. I'm stuck with a big ol' question mark on my forehead wondering what to do now. I've actually gotten the primary part of the app working, so that's good. I just have to write the code to extract from a secondary source, but that shouldn't be too problematic. Oh well.... back to the grindstone...