How to delete TFS work items

Question

Hi,

I am wondering if there is any way to permanently delete work items from TFS 2010. I cant find any option to do so from visual studio IDE.

Answer 1

You can delete TFS work items using following commands

In TFS 2008 you need to have power tools and use following command

tfpt destroywi /server:tfsservername /workitemid:value1[,value2,...] [/noprompt]

 

While in TFS 2010 you can use the command below

witadmin destroywi /collection:collectionurl /id:id [/noprompt]

for details refer following link 

http://ravendra.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/how-to-permanently-delete-work-item-tfs-2010-2008/

Answer 2

Thanks Ravendra, This worked for me.

Answer 3

in TFS 2010 there is the correct way

Here is how to do it for TFS 2010:

Step 1: Log-in to the TFS using a TFS administrator
user.

Step 2: Open a command line and go to:

32bit machine - “X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common 7\IDE”

64bit machine - “X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common
7\IDE”

Step 3: Use the “witadmin.exe destroywi” command in the
following way:

witadmin.exe destroywi
/Collection:http:\\[ServerName]:8080\tfs\[CollectionName] /id:[WI ID]

you can add as many Work Item IDs as you like using [,] for example 54,88,92
etc.

You can disable the prompt message by using /noprompt.

source : TFS 2010

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Best Regards A.Alzikan

Answer 4

Hi

If you want to delete workitems permanently from Visual Studio, you need to implement a Visual Studio extension or use an existing visual Studio extension that allow that.

Look at TFS Extensions Kit. TEK workitem in Visual Studio Gallery. May be you find it interesting.

Regards