Can not remove unnecessary arguments of a build process template

Question

Currently, my build process template has some redundant arguments that I want to remove:

I open this template in visual studio and remove the argument from the list:

Then, I check in modified template to TFS and refresh the build process template. But it seems nothing happen, redundant arguments is still there. I think it is because of some kind of cache. I try to restart visual studio and recreate build definition, but it not work.

I found a post say that we need to delete this build process template in tfs database: here is it . But I do not have permission to do this for now. Is there any other way I can do to clear the cache?

Answer 1

For your situation:

• First double check your template xxx .xaml in TFS server to make sure this arguments has been deleted and check in the server.

• Try to delete TFS cache by going into default C:\ {User Profile Folder}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\x.0\Cache and VS cache in appdata folder.

• Also try to delete the arguments in metadata Property as below. More detail from MSDN:

If it still doesn't work and you don't have the permission to TFS database. The final workaround, just create a new template with the same setting to your template without this redundant arguments.