So annoyingly, for the past few days I've been getting this gem when developing:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Team Foundation Error
Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000e.
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OK
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I'm using:
Not only are pop-up errors like this annoying, they are somewhat disconcerting as you kind of end up wondering if the great being that is TFS 2008 is going to bite you in the butt for not listening (TFS 2008 is a vast improvement over 2005, but still has it's quirks and often requires a bit of TLC and appeasement - but I digress!)
This is actually a collaboration error with Windows Live Messenger (go figure).
Right, so this error is relatively easily solved:
- Open VS 2008
- Go to the Team Explorer panel
- Right click on Team Members
- Select Personal Settings
- Have a look at Collaboration, you'll probably see Windows Live Messenger there (if not, then can't help you sorry!)
- Under Collaboration select --> Change
- Choose <None> as the provider name
Suggest you click ok, and restart VS 2008 (I got another funky error when trying to do some other stuff in settings after changing that).
Et Voila!!