If you look at any of the sample applications, you'll find: public partial class VocabularyPage : HealthServicePage The HealthServicePage does a lot for you, but it has the disadvantage of requiring you to use that page as a base class. In PB3,...

If you get this message at the bottom of the shell auth page on the developer servers, it's possible that you have ShellUrl set to: https://www.healthvault-ppe.com when it should be: https://account.healthvault-ppe.com

As you may already know, we've made some changes recently in how we create and modify data types on the HealthVault platform, and now that a few of us are up to speed on the process, we hope to get these happening more quickly. If you have interest...

HealthVault Solutions Conference 2008 will be held June 9th and 10th at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, Washington. Come to learn more about HealthVault, talk with the team members, meet a bunch of the other HealthVault solution providers, see exciting...

If you've been working with related items, you may have found that it's a bit inconvenient to use right now. Specifically: To set up a two-way-link between objects, you need to insert one, insert the second with related items, and then update the...

The PB6 release of the platform and SDK are now live on the PPE servers. You can download the SDK from the usual place. The following are the major features for the release. Fetch size control By default HealthVault will only return a certain...

We’ve just launched a logo program for HealthVault devices.

If you are using the HealthVault API, you may be running into the following issue: Summary HealthVault does not properly handle comments or whitespace between XML elements when a request is made to the XML API. Because of this, partners using the...

Drop off / Pick up is a new platform feature that helps you schedule service appointments for your light truck. Actually, it’s a way for an application to drop off a document with HealthVault, give a code to a user, and then have that user pick up that...

Health Solutions Group Corporate Vice President Peter Neupert now has a blog .

I wrote a post on my blog about these two events...

[Update: Removed PB3 reference - this has been around for a while] HealthVault provides a way for applications to store information associated with the current user. This is done using the ApplicationSettings class, which can be get and set through...

Sean has written a nice explanation about how HIPPA relates to HealthVault. In case you missed the link in his post, here's a direct link to the HealthVault HIPPA Position Paper .

We've set up a HealthVault Feedback site on Microsoft Connect. You can use it to report bugs that you have found, or make suggestions.

As part of the PB3, we implemented a whitelist of types that are allowed to be uploaded to HealthVault using the File object. You can fetch the current list from the platform using the following: ServiceInfo info = ApplicationConnection.GetServiceDefinition...

Customizing HealthVault Redirection , also code for this post is here .

There is a new document on MSDN that describes a new feature (sometimes known as "direct to clinical") to connect back-end systems to HealthVault without those systems having to implement a patient portal to handle the authorization of the application...

We have recently discovered a bug with the OfflineWebApplicationConnection class where HealthVault records are not returned correctly. The symptom is that GetAuthorizedRecords() returns a count of 0 and GetSelfRecord() throws an exception saying that...

We've released a new SDK in the usual place (ie find it via the MSDN site). In it, there are the following changes: New Data Types: Concern records a concern that a person has - "worried about my weight", or "having trouble sleeping". This differs...

If you're reading this post, I'm presuming a couple of things. You are interested in HealthVault, and you are in search of more information. Here's what we have for you: HealthVault Developer Center This is the MSDN developer center for HealthVault...

Our promo code email is now functioning correctly. If you need a promo code, go to the request page .

You may now ask questions in the HealthVault developer forum .

A short introduction to certificates and how they relate to HealthVault HealthVault and Certificates

There are some pictures and a few short videos of the launch event posted here .

Some of your emails to the Promo Code request alias ( hvPromo@microsoft.com ) were getting blocked by spam filters so we have built a request form and made it available on http://connect.microsofthealthbeta.com/RequestPromoCode.aspx . If you requested...