This document describes how to install a HealthVault certificate in the Windows certificate store and running the corresponding HealthVault application in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. If the certificate is not installed correctly in the local computer...

A common scenario we‘ve seen in hospital-based applications is the persistent need for a patient to share medical information with a doctor or group of doctors. In cases like this, both privacy concerns around medical information and requirements...

There are situations where partners need to know whether they can run their application behind a firewall, which require communicating with HealthVault through their IP based firewalls. We don’t recommend partners to depend on our HealthVault IPs...

As mentioned in Chris Tremonte ’s blog on ActionUrl, Privacy and Terms of Use , HealthVault Application Configuration Center now supports hardcoded statements for both Privacy and Terms of Use irrespective of the ActionURL specified for the application...

This Blog Post will help you in creating Application ID from HeathVault Application Manager in UK environment, as partners from UK cannot create Application ID using HeathVault Application Manager unless they modify ApplicationManager.exe.config file...

We are currently experiencing a technical issue that is blocking people from submitting a new support requesting using the HealthVault Developer Support offering . Until further notice please utilize the MSDN Forums . We will let everyone know when this...

Considering the wide acceptance, ease of use and large user base, mobile application development is getting more and more popular. As the device always stays close to the user, HealthVault integrated applications on mobile platforms make sense in a variety...

Starting with the HealthVault 0908 SDK release , HealthVault applications can run with an application’s certificate stored in a file store instead of in a certificate store by setting the ApplicationCertificateFileName key and its value in the web...

We are happy to announce the make-over of HealthVault Developer Center . The HealthVault Developer Center is an online site meant to complement the MSDN HealthVault Developer Center , Application Configuration Center and GetReal developed X-Ray for HealthVault...

The HealthVault Application Configuration Center is available at https://config.healthvault-ppe.com .  You login to this tool with a HealthVault-PPE account and it will show you a list of ApplicationIds for which you have admin rights.  Generally...

Most of our HealthVault documentation on samples focuses on building web applications but you can also use HealthVault with your rich client application. We support two high-level approaches to doing this: Intermediate web app With this approach...

As many of you know, the HealthVault platform asks each application to register a single ActionUrl that understands a variety of redirect targets.  These redirects are generally used in scenarios where the application first redirects to the HealthVault...

Our sample HealthVault applications in our HealthVault SDK all use relative paths for their NonProductionActionUrlRedirectOverride, but we have added support for absolute paths as well.  The “redirect” parameter in web.config now supports either...

The Microsoft HealthVault SDK comes with a few sample applications and ApplicationIds which you can use in order to explore the platform and even to get started on your own application. But at some point in your application development process, you will...

Have you ever needed or wanted to access or modify your application configuration, but couldn’t… because the developer who has the account to log in to the Application Configuration Center is out sick, not speaking with you, or is taking a permanent vacation...

We have hardened the security protocols used in our .NET SDK (>= 1.1.2193.4712) to use SHA2 instead of SHA1. If you are running HealthVault 0910 or 1001 SDK (DLL Version 1.1.2193.4712) on an Windows XP SP2 (which doesn’t support FIPS compliant SHA2...

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how users can connect to and use their application for multiple HealthVault records from partners lately; we’ve also found a number of partners who didn’t consider the scenario of an existing user wanting to switch...

You will see the error above if you try to update an instance of the BasicDemographicInformation HealthRecordItem type that is stored in the v2 type schema from an application that “speaks” the v1 type schema. In our recent 0910 release we updated the...

You may notice that the newest version of the Application Configuration Center contains fields for configuring your IP Filtering settings. This extra security measure is not generally needed for HealthVault applications, except in special cases. If you...

You can create and update your ApplicationId configuration in our Developer/PreProduction environment by accessing https://config.healthvault-ppe.com . The App Manager tool in our HealthVault SDK also connects to this config site. But t his configuration...

Applications are expected to Handle the HealthServiceCredentialTokenExpiredException. The best way to handle this error is to Redirect the user to sign-on again, the best place to implement it in your basepage’s page error handler. Here is some sample...

Here is some help on diagnosing some of the common modes of failure with HealthVault certificate management. Access denied The most common cause of this error is that the application can find the certificate but the account running the app does...

Got a good question today from a long-time HealthVault Developer -- at least they are long-time in terms of the short history of HealthVault. If your application certificate is not configured correctly, either on your app server or on the HealthVault...

There is a parameter on the HealthRecordFilter object called MaxFullItemsReturnedPerRequest and it is set to 240 by default. If your search returns more than MaxFullItemsReturnedPerRequest items then you will get full items for the first max items and...

We get a lot of questions about managing your HealthVault application certificate. When your application initiates a connection to HealthVault, it uses its unique private key to encrypt the first handshake message that it sends. HealthVault then uses...