Technology ramblings from a dilettante of all things digital

I've probably lost all of my loyal readers (both of them) from my severe lack of posting anything on here.  Anywho, I just wanted to state for the record that I will start publishing frequently on here again.  Expect to see several posts over the next couple of days, as I boldly pretend to try to bring my pet projects and interests to fruition here at work.

I recently got this error mucking with SQL.  It wouldn't connect worth a darn.  So I managed to find this simple concise blog entry that fixed it and so I feel I should mention it here.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2007/05/13/sql-network-interfaces-error-26-error-locating-server-instance-specified.aspx

For me, I just has to start the sql browser service.  Woooo.....

Just a quick note, if you happen to be running a service that will call automated tests like WatiN or IEUnit that need to open a browser or interact with the desktop in some way, you need to go into Computer Management, open the properties for that service and check the box that says "Allow this service to interact with the desktop."

This is just a minor thing, but there were some assemblies I needed in the GAC and wanted to reference them with minimum hasslehoff, so I just copied them out of the C:\windows\assembly\gac folder using the command prompt.  I got the solution from this post