Unable to create Aux folder

Question

In VS2012 seems that is not possible to create a project folder with the name "Aux". If you try to add a folder in your project and name it "Aux" an error message appears, saying that folder name could not contains ;*?|"<> Oo

Have you experencied the same situation? Is there a way to solve this situation?

Answer 1

This is a Windows limitation as Aux is a system name. Naming conventions can be found in the MSDN Documentation .

Other examples include:

CON, PRN, NUL, COM1, COM2, LPT1, LPT2, etc.