VS 2012 - Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read

Recently, I upgraded one of the team projects to VS2012. Post upgrade, whenever I tried opening the solution, VS would complain with the message, "Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read".

I opened up the solution file that did not have this issue (the one in the dev branch) and compared it to the recently upgraded solution. When I compared the solution files the value for the "SccNumberOfProjects" was different. There were supposed to be only 20 projects part of the solution but for some odd reason the value for this attribute was 21 in the upgraded version.

I changed the value of this attribute to 20 in the upgraded solution file (had to changes this in a couple of spots in the solution file) and the problem went away.

Hope this helps.

Unexpected Error "12037"

When downloading something from a secure site you may sometimes get the following error

Error 12037 - SSL certificate date that was received from the server is bad. The certificate is expired.

If this is the case, then check your clock settings. Most often then not this is because of a wrong time/zone on your machine.

Hope this helps.