How do I delete old shelvesets from TFS?

Question

Visual Studio 2017's "Find Shelvesets" TFS command displays:

Results (showing 100 of 392)

How do I access the other 292 items?

Answer 1

Use

tf vc shelvesets

and the create a file containing all the shelveset names (with quotations "" around each)

Then run

Get-Content .\shelvesets.txt | Foreach-object { Write-Host "." -NoNewline; Invoke-Expression "tf vc shelve /delete $_ /noprompt"}

This will run through each shelveset in the list and delete it, or spit out any error messages.

Answer 2

Either use the commandline to list them all:

tf vc shelvesets

And

tf vc shelve /delete 

to delete one.

Or download the TFS Sidekicks which provides a dedicated UI for a number of clean-up actions, including old shelvesets.