View the raw XML returned from a REST call using Internet Explorer

If you are seeing the "user-friendly", feed reading view when calling a REST service via Inter Explorer and would prefer to view the raw XML for development purposes, here are the steps you can take to make that happen:

1. Open Internet Explorer and enter your REST service call in the address bar
2. Confirm that you're returned a view similar to the following:
   
   
   
   
   
3. Click on Tools and select Internet Options
4. Click on the Content tab
5. Under the Feeds and Web Slices section, click on Settings
6. Uncheck the checkbox for the item that reads "Turn on feed reading view"
   
   
   
   
   
7. Click OK
8. Click OK
9. Refresh the browser and you will now see the raw XML returned from the REST service call
   
   
   
   
   

Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131904

Over the years, I've periodically encountered an issue in which SharePoint will give you the following error message whenever you attempt to perform some simple write, update, or delete operations on a site (i.e. like adding a new list item to a SharePoint list):

Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131904

In my experience, this error message is indicating that SharePoint is not able to write information to the content database and the most common cause that I've encountered is that the location where SQL logs are stored has run out of drive space (i.e. this being the SQL server that hosts the SharePoint content database).  Typically, we've either deleted the older SQL transaction logs stored here or simply moved them to another location with more drive space (i.e. archive) in order to free up space on that drive location.  Once that delete/move operation of the log files is complete and more drive space is available, the SharePoint environment will return to normal operation immediately.