CANNOT EVALUATE THE ITEM METADATA "%(FULLPATH)"

Added on 2013-02-06 Under:

When building one of the web services at work, I kept running into this error:

Cannot evaluate the item metadata "%(FullPath)". 
The item metadata "%(FullPath)" cannot be applied to the path 
	"bin\Debug\Native.[...].manifest". 

Turns out I was exceeding the limitation of 255 characters in a file path on windows. Moving the solution to a root directory fixed the error and let the service compile.