Force delete of Service Fabric application - azure-service-fabric

Question

I am having issues during development where an exception during service start up causes the application to get stuck in an error state. This prevents further debugging. I can't seem to delete the application through the cluster management portal either, it just times out.
The only way I've found to fix is to reset the cluster, which takes a few minutes and deletes all other applications from the cluster as well.
What's the correct way to force delete of an individual application?

Answer 1

I created the following powershell script which seems to do the trick:
param([string]$applicationName = "SomeAppName", [string]$version = "1.0.0")
$applicationUri = "fabric:/" + $applicationName
$applicationTypeName = $applicationName + "Type"
Connect-ServiceFabricCluster localhost:19000
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Removing $applicationUri from local cluster"
Remove-ServiceFabricApplication -ApplicationName fabric:/$applicationName
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Removing $applicationTypeName (v$version) from local cluster"
Unregister-ServiceFabricApplicationType -ApplicationTypeName $applicationTypeName -ApplicationTypeVersion $version
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Complete"
Can be called like so:
.\Delete-SF-App.ps1 -applicationName "MyService" -version "1.0.0"
EDIT:
If the above doesn't work then the below powershell command can be used to remove individual replicas:
$nodes = Get-ServiceFabricNode
foreach($node in $nodes)
{
$replicas = Get-ServiceFabricDeployedReplica -NodeName $node.NodeName -ApplicationName $applicationName
foreach ($replica in $replicas)
{
Remove-ServiceFabricReplica -ForceRemove -NodeName $node.NodeName -PartitionId $replica.Partitionid -ReplicaOrInstanceId $replica.ReplicaOrInstanceId
}
}

Answer 2

Please ignore this answer if you aren't using Visual Studio for development and debugging.
I know the question is already answered but have you tried to change Application Debug Mode setting in Visual Studio to Remove Application?