title: Azure: How to Delete "DeadLettered" Messages from Service Bus queue
body: <p><strong>I would like to delete the Dead Lettered messages from the service bus queue.</strong> In particular, this value is called DeadLetterMessageCount and you can find out this by right-clicking the "Properties" of the SB queue in the Server Explorer of your project (in case of using a SB queue).</p>
  
  <p>The reason I would like to do this is because I've set up an Autoscale of the cloud service. So, when the SB queue is quite big, it adds some more cores in order to proceed the messages faster (it enables more worker roles). I realized that when you set up the scaling depending on the number of messages in the queue, it counts the DeadLettered messages as well (messages that cannot be consumed).
  So that's a waste of money, as more instances are enabled that are not needed.</p>
  
  <p>Any queries, please let me know.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help</p>