recently I have been getting an error from Visual Studio:
Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000e
OK so what the hell is that about?
Well after some digging I find that it is to do with some funky MSN Messenger integration in VS.
It seems that everyone in your team is expected to have a Windows Live ID with an email address that matches that on their domain account. Now while this may be very useful someday, right now it is causing my VS to blow up and become unusable.
Well, after must head scratching (ok googling) I found a solution:
Once you click ok and wait for what seems like an age the Team Explorer will become usable again.
Right Click on the 'Team Members' section in your project and select 'Personal Settings'.
Click the 'Change' button in the 'Collaboration' section.
Select '<None>' as your collaboration provider.
Problem solved, no more annoying exception and VS is usable again ;-)