Really Delete from Source Control

Ok, I've read all the old threads and I still don't get it.

How do I completely delete a TFS project including all the related artifacts in source control

I've already tried tfsdeleteproject.exe /force /server:servername "team project name" and it "seems" to work but I still see the project in the source control explorer.

Jeff ****

MVP - Commerce Server

Visual Studio Team System6

If all went well, the items you see should be in the deleted state. We
do not have a ‘destroy’ (permanent delete) feature in source control v1,
sorry.

Richard,

They are in the "deleted" state and I can hide them using the options but how are we to control the growth of the TFS source control databases if we can't delete artifacts that are "obsolete"

We understand that HD space is a concern for some customers, e.g. game developers who checkin lots of binaries. Destroy will be supported in the future.

Richard,

Thanks for the update. I look forward to when we can control this better.

We did a trial run at porting our VSS database over to Team System Source Control, and now we want to do it for real. Is there any workaround -- any manual way to destroy the data from the first attempt without completely recreating the database I don't like the idea of using double the space we really need.

In general, my opinion of Microsoft is positive, but I wonder if Microsoft will ever release a v1 product that isn't half-baked Please don't take that personally (I'm sure you are working very hard) but tell it to upper management so that they think ahead a little more (even IE7 is behind the times and not really innovative). Destroy is a fundamental feature. Differencing two folders from the GUI also should have been in the initial release (at least there is now a power toy for that). Overall, the product needs more polish, IMHO.

Thanks for listening.

I simply can not agree with this more. Destroying is fundamental. The documentation on this whole product has been horrific. There has to be a way to manually remove these records from the database without having to reload the entire Foundation server.

I presume destroy will have a seperate permission

Yes, Destroy will have its own permission.

TFS 2008 allows destroying files now using the tf destroy command

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399141.aspx

I was trying to destroy an unneeded folder which was previously deleted but it said it did not exist until I undeleted the folder and then I was able to destroy it.