Wednesday, January 29, 2014

How to delete backlog items in TFS

I'm currently taking a course in software engineering, focusing on the agile development model. And in this course we are using Visual Studio Online. Visual Studio Online is an instance of Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosted by Microsoft, and is free for teams up to 5 people (with some restrictions).

And so at this course we are split into groups of 5 for the whole semester, avoiding spending ;-)

Anyways, one of the things i found non-intuitive with TFS was in the handling of backlog and work -items. Especially deleting items.
One would think that just right-clicking on the item would bring up the option, but thats not the case.


Not here
In order to delete a backlog item you need to doubble-click the item and set it's state to "removed":
Select 'remove' and it will move to trash
And once selected removed, you can still find the item if you do a query for removed items. The trash can model.

As a first time user i find TFS to be way more time consuming than it should need to.

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