Today I encountered a strange error, the AotNodeNotFoundException. Well, it doesn't sound strange, but the Aot Node did in fact exist, and everything looked to be in perfect order.
Checking more closely I noticed that the AotNodeNotFoundException referenced a slightly shorter AOT node name than Visual Studio and C# did. It turned out there was an AOT node max length limit, and names longer than that were truncated. That left a reference to a truncated user control.
When I shortened the name of the user control, and updated the AOT references accordingly, everything worked just fine.
So keep those AOT node names trimmed!
