Official feedback about removing orphan collection in TFS 2013

Continued from: Remove orphan collection item without related database in TFS 2013 with Update 2

 

It’s announced that this will be fixed in Update 3 of TFS by Microsoft Officially.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/874523/delete-a-collection-without-related-database-connected-vs2013u2

 

A workaround, editing database directly, is provided also.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cceec4ba-1712-4905-9e7b-8669bf81880f/damaged-project-collection-on-tfs-2013-no-solution-to-delete-it-from-server?forum=tfsadmin

But you should keep in mind that editing database directly is dangerous and will lose all supports from Microsoft.

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