Integration with Office from Team Explorer stopped working–and how to fix it!

Last week my office integration from Team Explorer stopped working. the Team menu in excel was gone and when I tried to open a WI-query from VS I got this error message:

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TF80012: The document cannot be opened because there is a problem with the installation of the Microsoft Visual Studio v10.0 Team foundation Office integration components. Please see the Team Foundation Installation Guide for more information.

First I tried to fix this by repairing the Team Explorer, this did not fix the problem. The I found a blog post suggesting that re-registration of the Office add-in might solve it. The command is:

For 64-bit  windows:
Regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll"

or it you have 32-bit windows:
Regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll"

And this fixed the problem! The menu is back in Excel and i can open queries from VS into office applications.
My environment, for reference: Windows 7 x64, VS 2010, Office 2010 32-bit

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: blomqvist

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