A few days after installing the TFS Power Tools, I started getting error messages whenever I opened up the Team Explorer pane in Visual Studio. The exact error was:
Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000e.
The problem was related to the collaboration piece of the tool. My installation had Widows Live Messenger as the selected provider. I don’t know if this is the default selection or if somehow the installation detected what was running. Either way, the fix to stopping the error messages was to disable the collaboration piece.
- Right click on the Team Members node of the project.
- Select Personal Settings… from the context menu.
- In the Collaboration grouping, click on the Change button.
- In the window to choose a collaboration provider, select <None>
- Click OK twice.
As a side note, other than the message box showing the error, I didn’t really encounter any problems with the operation of TFS. The other option available, aside from Messenger, was to use Communicator as the collaboration medium.
