How to Install the RTM Version of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft recently released the RTM version of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (read the announcement on S. Somasegar’s blog) as a step forward in their development support for SharePoint and Office 2013. In this article, I will explain how to install the final version of the tools in a CloudShare environment where Visual Studio 2012 + Preview 2 of the Office Developer Tools is installed.

Let’s start!

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How to Recover SharePoint 2013 Databases from Suspect Mode

I restarted my SharePoint server, opened Central Administration and encountered the following error:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server.

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How to fix SharePoint 2013 Web Application error “The context has expired and can no longer be used”

I came across this odd error a couple of times in the past few weeks, so I wrote a quick guide that might help you get rid of it.

If you see this error after opening your SharePoint 2013 site, there is a lack of synchronization between Date and Time settings in your SharePoint 2013 Server and your SharePoint web application.

Sorry, something went wrong. The context has expired and can no longer be used. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80090317)

Here is how you fix it!

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How to get rid of an HTTP 500.19 – Internal Server Error message in a SharePoint 2010 Server

Even when I’m performing the most common and simple of tasks, sometimes I still manage to mess things up and get an error message I’ve never seen before.  Read the rest of this entry »