title: How to resolve error loading DB project in Visual Studio 2010
body: <p>I suddenly started getting the following error in the "General" ouput window of Visual Studio 2010 when loading the database project as part of a pretty large solution:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Cannot evaluate the item metadata "%(FullPath)". The item metadata "%(FullPath)" cannot be applied to the path "obj\Debug|Any CPU\Database.dbschema". Illegal characters in path.  C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Nothing has changed in the .Net framework recently, and there is not mention of <code>FullPath</code> in the Database.dbproj file.</p>
  
  <p>Googling around yielded this blog entry, but resetting the Visual Studio environment did not help:
  <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vstsdb/thread/14eecc38-87fe-4234-b5fa-c2fa7cab9ae9" rel="nofollow">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vstsdb/thread/14eecc38-87fe-4234-b5fa-c2fa7cab9ae9</a></p>