VS2008 Error After installing TFS Powertools

Question

Hi,

I'm getting a weird error occassionally in VS2008. A colleague gets a similar error, we both noticed it after installing TFS PowerToys so I'm wondering if it's related.

Anyway the error is:

Team Foundation Error Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID{GUIID...} failed due to the following error: 80040154,

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated

Thanks

dan

Answer 1

TFS Power tools installs something to be able to inform developers using MSN Messenger and this error is caused by MSN Messenger. Maybe this should help MSN Messenger Errors 80040111 and 80040154

Fix 80040111 and 80040154 Error.

Cause: MSXML library may be corrupted and may have to be reinstalled

Troubleshooting steps:

Step 1. Re-register msxml3.dll

• Click on the Start menu, select Run and type the following:
  Regsvr32 %windir%\system32\msxml3.dll

Hopefully, you will see a window popup that says:
DllRegisterServer succeeded in C:\Windows\System32\msxml3.dll is succeeded.

Step 2. Restart your computer and sign into Messenger again

Answer 2

We recently changed from SourceSafe to TFS at my workplace and a good bunch of us had to reinstall SP1 in VS2008 to get Powertools and TFS to work properly. Wheter this is related to your problem however I am unsure... It did seem to clear up several weird errors for me.

Answer 3

I am getting the same error message, this occurs with the Team Explorer tool window is displayed in VS 2008.

I don't have MSN/Live messenger installed as it in blocked on the corporate network.

Could this error be still showing (after re-registering msxml) because TFS Power Tools expects Messenger to be installed on all computers?

Answer 4

Team Explorer has collaboration facilities to allow it to interact with Windows Live Messenger or Office Communicator. If you've uninstalled these, you might get the same error from Team Explorer trying to talk to a non existent program. In Team Explorer, right click on Team Members, click Personal Settings. Under Collaboration, click change and choose (or put it to another provider if you wish).

This worked for me.

Answer 5

Setting "Collaboration" to cleared up this error for me as well. Thanks!