Programmatically delete a TFS branch

Question

I want to programmatically delete a branch in TFS that was create automatically.

There is an existing method "ICommonStructureService.DeleteBranches" that should do the work. My problem is that the method requires a parameter "string[] nodeUris" that specifies the branch to delete using a "vstfs://... " URI and I just don't know how to get that for my branch.

What I need is something like:

var projectCollection = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri <myCollectionUrl>));
var cssService = projectCollection.GetService<ICommonStructureService3>();
var project = cssService.GetProjectFromName(<myProjectName>);

But how can I get the Branch Uri from there?

Answer 1

Meanwhile I found a solution. For deleting the branches I am using

versionControl.Destroy(new ItemSpec(myBranchPath, RecursionType.Full), VersionSpec.Latest,  null, DestroyFlags.KeepHistory);

This does exactly what I needed. versionControl is of type VersionControlServer and must be initialized using the Team Collection