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Friday, January 30, 2009 11:32 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #5 – Do I weigh too much?

A common question asked by people is “do I weigh too much”, so we’re going to add the calculation of BMI to our application. <aside> The question of what a person’s desirable weight is – or even if there is a desirable weight – is one with lots
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Friday, January 23, 2009 9:18 AM

The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form

A very nice collection of definitions, all done in limerick form. OEDILF
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Friday, January 23, 2009 9:03 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #4 – Storing and retrieving weights

We are now ready to make our WeightTracker application do something useful. That something useful is composed of two stories: The user enters a weight, and it’s stored to the user’s HealthVault record The weight measurements in the user’s record are displayed
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:55 PM

New computer

I've shot a fair number of pictures this last year - mostly of my daughter's sports. My camera is a Canon 40D, and I generally use my 70-200mm F4L lens. The camera works well and is better than I am. I shoot all my photos in RAW format, which basically
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Friday, January 16, 2009 3:14 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring our application

Now that we have HelloWorld set up and running, we want to move on to developing the real application. We’ll start with a shell application and add to it as we go. Download the WeightTracker shell , and open the project in Visual Studio. Register the
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:51 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #2: Hello World

In this post, we’ll create an account on the HealthVault system, open up the HelloWorld sample application, and verify that it works on our system. There are two live HealthVault platforms. A developer platform at http://www.healthvault-ppe.com . This
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:23 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #1: Introduction

Welcome to the tutorial. In this tutorial, we will develop a HealthVault application from scratch. My intention is to add new tutorial chapters on a roughly weekly basis, though I have a few ones queued up and already to go. If you haven’t located the
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:54 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #0: Background

Coding without a net Over the years, I’ve attended a number of talks that show you how easy it is to use a new component, using canned projects, pre-written code that is cut-and-pasted in, and contrived scenarios. In the early years of .NET, I saw a different
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