As we move more towards the cloud for our solutions these days, there are a growing number of PAAS options appearing that can help us to solve our problems without needing to reinvent the wheel.

If your application requires a search service to be able to quickly query over a proprietary or legacy data source, I can...

If you have migrated over to VSTS (or TFS 2017) from TeamCity, you may have a noticed a useful feature missing.

Now VSTS defaults the build number format to a revision number in the format similar to as shown below.

So whats the problem?

This is fine if you are happy with an incrementing number across all projects....

Introduction

For our on-premises deployment of our integration applications, Mexia often look for the ideal tools to utilise to deliver the best value for our clients and to minimise time/effort wastage and provide developers a pleasant experience.

A combination we find that works well for Integration projects is ...

Details a workaround for a small issues with BTDF v5.5 when deploying to multi server environments

We utilise the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) for deploying our Biztalk applications. It is a very useful utility and would strongly recommend checking it out if you are not currently utilising it for your Biztalk...