Visual Studio Team System

VS 2008 Team Foundation Error - IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000e.

Roché Naudé — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:10:28 GMT

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:

Visual Studio Team System 2008 (Development Edition) with SP1
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools - October 2008

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!!

TFS - How to tell who has what checked-out or locked?

Roché Naudé — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:56:32 GMT

I've recently been asked to help someone determine what files they have checked out in TFS.

Knowing that the Visual Studio Team System IDE (I'm using VS TS 2008) is abysmal at helping give basic information like this, and not feeling like installing any other third party add-ons, I did a quick Google search and discovered the VS Team System TF command-line program.

I'm only going to show you how to check on statuses of items across all TFS server sites/projects, feel free to do further investigation if you want to get trickier and be more filter savvy. The below serves my purposes more than adequately. Obviously, user your own TFS server location and so on.

Open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt
To see everything that is checked-out/locked across all TFS sites
tf status /user:* /s:http://tfsweb:8090/
To see everything that is checked-out/locked across all TFS sites by a specific user, plug-in the username (round of applause for our eager volunteer Joe)
tf status /user:joe.soap /s:http://tfsweb:8090/
If you're keen to learn more about the inner workings of the program type
TF /?
(etc, you know how to do it) to read up on the various options

SHOULD work with VS Team System for 2005, but I've not tried it.
Obviously, USE with care, this is quite a powerful little command line app.

The above with help from, and thanks to...
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/07/24/3125.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/01/10/511188.aspx