Deleting a site having subsites?

Question

How to delete a website which is having subsites in sharepoint 2010? I dont like to go to down level and start up deleting? i would like to delele site and subsites at a time?

Answer 1

MSDN Blog: Using PowerShell to Delete a Site with Subsites in SharePoint Server 2010

or

SharePoint Automation: A Better Delete Web (stsadm extension)

Answer 2

Do you have the Publishing Infrastructure enabled? If so I believe you can do this from the Site Actions/Manage Content and Structure option. Just chose delete from the menu.

Answer 3

If you're trying to do this via the Object Model, then you're going to have to recurse down through the sites and delete from the bottom up.

I've put together a function to do this (see below). However, I've also put together a more integrated solution in the form of an extension method, which can be found on my blog. SPFix: Deleting a site with subsites programmatically

public static void DeleteWeb(SPWeb web)
{
    foreach (SPWeb subWeb in web.Webs)
    {
        DeleteWeb(subWeb);
    }

    web.Delete();
}

Answer 4

Depends on how you want to remove the site and it's corresponding sub-sites, whether by Powershell or programatically.

If you are wanting to do this programatically, according to technet, you should be able to just use:

Remove-SPSite -Identity "http://sitename" -GradualDelete -Confirm:$False

Otherwise, the other code related snippet and link provided by @Stuart should work.