When I try to start the service, it fails and the following appears in the Application log within Event Viewer: Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event ID: 17058 Task Category: Server Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description: initerrlog: Could not open error log file ''. Operating system error = 3(The system cannot find the path specified.). To fix this I had to change the Log on as property of the service from Local Service to Local System Technorati Tags: sql server 2008,troubleshooting,servic...
I was given with a simple requirement – create an online component that has the ability to pull RSS feeds asynchronously from websites. I could have written a server control, but that would mean I would need to write the logic to read the xml and parse it. Totally doable, but it was late in the day when the requirement came in and I wasn’t about to slave over Visual Studio to write manage code. OK, so long story short I used the Google Feed API to get the job done. Assuming you know jQuery the code...