Issues

VS 2017 Error: The specified task executable "sgen.exe" could not be run. The filename or extension is too long.

OK, I admit this error tripped me off. If it were a file I created, I would have simply moved things around to reduce the filename length. But the error was coming from Visual Studio, specifically, from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets. And, sgen: what's that? It turns out sgen is just an XML serializer generator - something I clearly don't use or need. The .targets file above contained a task referencing Sgen.