Delete / Remove TFS Work Item Type

September 3, 2008 · 1 min read

**This functionality was added to TFS 2008, and you need the Power Tools to do it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx
**
DestroyWITD Command
Use the destroywitd command to destroy a work item type. Currently, work item types can only be deleted. Destroying a work item type means that work items of that type are physically deleted and cannot be restored.

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Juan Ignacio Gelos

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