Delete a Team Project

Why would you ever want to delete a team project from Team Foundation Server? It contains your changeset and work history, basically everything about your project. Of course, if you were trying to fix an issue with adding team projects, you probably added an unnecessary dummy project that needs to be removed.

I didn’t see a way to delete my test project through Visual Studio, so I turned to my friend Bing to find an expert. Ben Day came to the rescue.

Drop to a Visual Studio 2008/2010 command prompt and enter: TfsDeleteProject /server:<server name> <team project name>

You will then receive the following message.

Warning: Deleting a team project is an irrecoverable operation. All version control, work item tracking and Team Foundation build data will be destroyed from the system. The only way to recover this data is by restoring a stored backup of the databases. Are you sure you want to delete the team project and all of its data (Y/N)?

It goes without saying that you should only type “Y” and press enter if you really want to do this.