I changed the state of a TFS task I was working on recently, only to discover the workflow wouldn’t let me return it to it’s prior state. Until today, I didn’t know it was possible to delete TFS tasks if you made a mistake in changing one. But some Googling revealed a blog post that explained how to delete tasks.
The direction of the slashes for the URL can point forward (/) instead of backward () and the witadmin.exe destroywi /Collection:<TFS url> /id:<Task id> command still works.
Does this method still leave the orphaned data in the ‘WorkItemsWere’ table?
I’m not sure if it leaves anything behind in that table or not. I’d have to check.
Thanks.