When: Wednesday June 11, 2008 @ 6:30PM
Where: Space Coast Credit Union Corp Headquarters

Want to know what you need to do to keep your DBA happy and make your application run really fast? Wondering if stored procedures are really faster than dynamic sql? Need some good guidelines for adding indexes? We'll spend an hour talking about performance in this very interactive presentation.

Andy Warren of End to End Training will be speaking.

Register if you plan to attend this event

Then will be pizza and magazines available for those who attend. We will be raffleing off a Technet plus subscription at the end of the meeting. 

The day started out with the key note by Bill Gates.  Very nice speech on the focus of their development efforts for the years to come.  We were also treated to the director's cut of the Bill Gates' Last Day video.

I've made some new friends.

Drank my MSDN Subscription's worht of Beer at Howl at The Moon for Geekfest 2008.  It was a nice time and I got to meet many more of the folks from the Florida .Net Communities. 

I arrived on Monday afternoon at the convention center.   I always forget how incredibly large the facility is.  The first glimpse of the floow was empty but beautiful.  The booths were very well put togeather.

The afternoon was spent at the INETA Community Summit with the Florida Delegation led by Joe Healy (Only half of us could vote).  It was a great discussion on the challenges, successes, tips and more of building a community.  I got some good ideas to bring back to the Space Coast .Net User Group.

After the summit was hotel check-in followed by Party with Palermo at the Glow Lounge.  Ran into a former co-worker who was staying at the same hotel and we got to catch-up over copious servings of beer.

I put a couple of collections on Live Maps to help everyone find the where & when of the after hours events at TechEd 2008 Dev.

• TechEd 2008 Dev Evenings - Monday
• TechEd 2008 Dev Evenings - Tuesday
• TechEd 2008 Dev Evenings - Thursday

I was comparing the list of evening events from the IT Pro week to the Developer's week and I have come to the conclusion - we're boring.  The IT Pro week is booked with evening events all over the place on every night.  It really doesn't matter, I'll be in my room in the evenings studying for certs (cough... not...).

These are odd months for the User Groups with the kids getting out of school.  You're never sure what you'll get.  We had a crowd of 15+ attendees. Some regulars and some designers who were new to the group.  Jeff's presentation was quite extensive but paced to not bore.

Next month is going tobe SQL Guru Andy Warren - more info to follow.

I ran into a BizTalk problem today that was inevitable.  We interface with PeopleSoft  a bunch.  PeopleSoft has some very specific Schemas it uses to communicate.  We have two seperate applications that make use of the same schema in reading responses posted to the PeopleSoft web service.  Well the second of two projects what put into production a few days ago.  When I came in this morning, one of them had a suspended message on the receive side of a HTTP Send/Receive adapter:

Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
Source: "XML disassembler"
Receive Port: "rcvFile"
URI: "C:\Test\In\*.xml"
Reason: Cannot locate document specification because multiple schemas matched the message type

So, as expected, BizTalk could not figure out which schema to resolve the message to as it exists in this Applicaion and another.  The default XML Receive Pipieline is not very helpful in this situation as it is just that - default.  The solution turns out to be quite simple.  Create a new Receive Pipeline and add an XML Disassembler to the Disassemble stage.  In the XML Disassembler's properties, add the desired schema from the application to the disassembler's Document Schemas collection.  This tells the disassembler to select from this list only.  If the list is empty, it will behave the same way as the default XML Receive Pipeline.