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NS_E_NAMESPACE_NAME_TOO_LONG
Where the condition occurs
This result (0xC00D1392) marks a node name exceeds the namespace component length accepted by the server. Treat the symbolic name as a map to the owning Windows Media Services subsystem rather than as a request to reinstall every media component.
Windows Media Services persists server configuration as a typed hierarchy; nodes have names, value types, security classifications and persistence rules; callbacks are attached to particular nodes rather than to arbitrary strings. In the trace, when configuration was imported or replicated, compare ServerNamespace.xml, NameSpaceDelta.xml and plug-in registrations, but do not edit those files while WMServer is running.
Code-specific failure anatomy
A representative occurrence is when a node name exceeds the namespace component length accepted by the server. Capture the unescaped component length, full path length, generated prefix/suffix and character encoding together with the object instance and the exact administrative or protocol request.
For a useful negative control, shorten the single offending component while preserving a stable external-to-internal name mapping.
The tempting but misleading response is only increasing an output buffer; this validation rejects the stored name, not the retrieval buffer. That action does not test the distinction that matters here: buffer too small is fixed by caller allocation; name too long requires changing the proposed identifier.
What to record before changing anything
| Controlled comparison | Use a known-good object of the same type and vary only the precondition described as “a node name exceeds the namespace component length accepted by the server”. |
Smallest useful experiment
- Capture
0xC00D1392, the symbolic name, the exact API/administrative action and the first failure timestamp. - Preserve the unescaped component length, full path length, generated prefix/suffix and character encoding.
- Perform one isolated experiment: shorten the single offending component while preserving a stable external-to-internal name mapping.
Related codes are different
Primary distinction: buffer too small is fixed by caller allocation; name too long requires changing the proposed identifier.
| Nearby result | Different condition |
|---|---|
NS_E_NAMESPACE_DUPLICATE_NAME | a sibling node with the requested name already exists. |
NS_E_NAMESPACE_CALLBACK_NOT_FOUND | an unregister operation names a callback that is not attached to the node. |
NS_E_NAMESPACE_EMPTY_NAME | a create or lookup operation supplied an empty node-name component. |
Changes that do not establish the cause
- only increasing an output buffer; this validation rejects the stored name, not the retrieval buffer.
- Avoid changing the publishing point, protocol, content and plug-in set in one test; such a test cannot show which precondition cleared the code.
Technical references
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