Ariel Gur-Arieh

COM error with October 2008 Release of TFS Power Tools

arielga — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:52:54 GMT

Lately many of our customers get the following error while opening Visual Studio using TFS:

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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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The problem is related to the new (October 2008) Power Tools release: "Team Members" function is not working good with Windows Live Messenger on.

According to the post above Making a long story short, the solutions available are:

1. Open VS 2008 and wait until Team Members is not "working..."
2. Right-click on it and select Personal Settings
3. Under Collaboration, click Change
4. On the opened dialog select None and click OK
5. Click OK once again

Close Messenger before VS Starts

Hope it solves your problem

Technorati Tags: Team System,Power Tools,Visual Studio

, let’s hope the next release of TFS Power Tools will fix it.

Dev Academy III Summary

arielga — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:08:02 GMT

Took me 3 days to post this one ... I'm really overwhelmed from the amount of feedbacks - THANK YOU ALL!

Dev Academy III was a great success, seeing so many professionals sharing knowledge in one place in such a short time made this day both enjoyable and beneficial.

I would like to thank you all for this great experience: Guy Burstein and Yifat Haramati who made all this possible, Roy and Michael from MCD for all the help, my colleague presenters for sharing knowledge, and last but not least thank you audience for making this this event such a great one.

Special thanks for all of you who shared with me my session Test Driven Development using Visual Studio Team System. Now you can download the Presentation, the Video and the Demo Code and see how TDD ROCKS!

Being practical: next week I promise to post all the issues raised and asked during these 3 days (getting used to being a blogger - am I?).

Any comment, feedback or question are more than welcome.

My Dev Academy III Session - Test Driven Development with Visual Studio Team System

arielga — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:26:00 GMT

On my first post I am excited to invite you all to hear my session focused on Test Driven Development using Visual Studio Team System.

This session will take place in the upcoming Developer Academy III conference where you can hear all about the new and exciting Technologies.

The 2 Sessions I'll take part in will be:

ALM302: Test Driven Development (TDD) with Visual Studio Team System
On 15/12/2008 at 16:00-17:10
In this session I will show how Unit Test and Test Driven Development can improve your coding experience while adapting to an environment requiring frequent changes.
Most of the session will be hands on and I'm making a great effort to make it fun and productive for you, hope to see you there.
If you want to download the Presentation here or in Developer Academy III site.

PNL03: ALM - Team System
On 15/12/2008 at 14:30-15:40
Led by Doron Caspin in which we are going to discuss the following issues to help you better focus your efforts:
1. Team system deployment – Do it your self
2. Agile vs. Scrum and CMMI - Best practice for selecting process template
3. VSTS2010 and new power tools
4. Team system for non .net development teams
and more.

See you there.

Ariel.