You may now ask questions in the HealthVault developer forum .

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

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

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...

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...

For those of you interested in connecting devices to HealthVault, there's a blog just for you.

Users, records, and multi-record applications

On Thursday November 5 th 2009 we will be making an operational change to our HealthVault Developer (PPE) environment and cleaning up certain items that have data within their <other_data> element. The following items may be removed during...

Do you use the CHM file (ie .NET API docs) that ships as part of the SDK, or do you just use the online docs on MSDN? We're trying to determine if we need to use both.

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

I wrote a few articles about data types on my blog: HealthRecordItem Weight, measurements, and display values Custom data types A custom data type architecture

We have refreshed the application configuration center . This tool along with Application Manager lets you easily create and self-configure your applications. Here are some of the changes we made: Refreshed the Data type creation and editing interface...

This post talks about how to get the previous state of an item...

HealthVault Vocabulary Browser

[Update] There is now a HealthVault Devices blog...

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...

Our Pre Production Environment is experiencing problems right now (Jan 22, 2009 ~ 12pm PST). Please post your concerns and comments in case this is affecting you. Please note that Application Configuration Center toolset is down owing to this. We will...

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...

HealthVault 1006 release is now available in the HealthVault pre-production environment. This release will be available in the production environment next week . The associated .NET SDK and release notes will be released shortly.

The PB9DT2 release has been deployed to the production servers, and the associated SDK can be found in the usual place . The release contains the following new data types: A pregnancy data type. A genetic SNP results data type. Additionally, there are...

  I’m incredibly excited to announce on behalf of the HealthVault team that HealthVault 1206 has been released to PPE and Production. This release is packed full of new functionality including new Shell experiences, a focus on weight management,...

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

If you would prefer to receive our blog posts as email rather than by going to the blog page or subscribing to the RSS feed, you can do the following: Go to one of the blogs. It doesn't matter which one. Choose "Join". You will be prompted to...

We will be performing routine maintenance on the HealthVault Developer Environment servers between 6pm and 7pm Pacific Time next Wednesday, Oct 24th. Intermittent outages are possible during this maintenance window. We plan on using a similar time window...

What data type should I use?