Deleted projects in Azure DevOps remain in Visual Studio with their ID

Question

After deleting 3 projects in Azure DevOps (VSTS) they are deleted there. But in VS 2017 Team Explorer (Source Control Explorer) they are still there - without their name, but with an ID, e.g. D486bb7b9-b159-441b-a9cd-8758c60c38e3.

I cannot delete them there.

How do I get rid of them?

Answer 1

You face this problem, because the project can be recovered within 28 days.

Projects are permanently deleted, if not restored within 28 days.

Azure DevOps implemented this feature to protect companies from mad employees and people who would harm the repositories.The only solution is to wait 28 days, before they are gone.

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When the repository is not visible in Azure DevOps, you can remove the TFS repositories by using the Destroy command

tf destroy [/keephistory] <itemspec1>[;<versionspec>][<itemspec2>...<itemspecN>] 
[/stopat:<versionspec>] [/preview] [/startcleanup] [/noprompt] [/silent] [/login:username,[password]] [/collection:TeamProjectCollectionUrl]]