HealthVault FAQ

This blog hosts FAQ questions (and answers) for developers using the HealthVault SDK

Certificate loading problem or Error loading certificate in IIS 7 and later versions

This document describes how to install a HealthVault certificate in the Windows certificate store...

Author: Madan kamuju Date: 02/21/2011

How to share data with a physician

A common scenario we‘ve seen in hospital-based applications is the persistent need for a...

Author: Aneesh D1 Date: 02/14/2011

HealthVault policy regarding HealthVault server IP addresses and partners with IP-based firewalls

There are situations where partners need to know whether they can run their application behind a...

Author: Anish Ravindran Date: 01/21/2011

ActionURL targets override for Privacy and Terms of Use from HealthVault Application Configuration Center

As mentioned in Chris Tremonte’s blog on ActionUrl, Privacy and Terms of Use, HealthVault...

Author: Anish Ravindran Date: 01/07/2011

Creating application ID from HeathVault Application Manager in UK environment

This Blog Post will help you in creating Application ID from HeathVault Application Manager in UK...

Author: Madan kamuju Date: 12/20/2010

Users are unable to create support cases - Fixed

We are currently experiencing a technical issue that is blocking people from submitting a new...

Author: Anish Ravindran Date: 12/14/2010

Mobile phone application development in HealthVault

Considering the wide acceptance, ease of use and large user base, mobile application development is...

Author: Aneesh D1 Date: 11/23/2010

Running a HealthVault Application in IIS without installing a certificate in the certificate store

Starting with the HealthVault 0908 SDK release, HealthVault applications can run with an...

Author: Anish Ravindran Date: 11/10/2010

Meet the Upgraded HealthVault Developer Center

We are happy to announce the make-over of HealthVault Developer Center. The HealthVault Developer...

Author: Lowell Meyer Date: 05/24/2010

Accessing your application configuration

The HealthVault Application Configuration Center is available at...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 03/09/2010

Rich client options

Most of our HealthVault documentation on samples focuses on building web applications but you can...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/24/2010

ActionUrl, Privacy and Terms of Use

As many of you know, the HealthVault platform asks each application to register a single ActionUrl...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/19/2010

Absolute URLs for NonProductionActionUrlRedirectOverride

Our sample HealthVault applications in our HealthVault SDK all use relative paths for their...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/17/2010

Creating your own ApplicationId and certificates

The Microsoft HealthVault SDK comes with a few sample applications and ApplicationIds which you can...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/11/2010

Managing Ownership of and Access to Your HealthVault Application Config

Have you ever needed or wanted to access or modify your application configuration, but couldn’t…...

Author: Lowell Meyer Date: 01/26/2010

Running HealthVault .NET SDK (1.1.2193.4712) on XP SP2

We have hardened the security protocols used in our .NET SDK (>= 1.1.2193.4712) to use SHA2...

Author: VaibhavB [MSFT] Date: 01/25/2010

Authorizing Additional Records or Switching the Active Record

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how users can connect to and use their application for...

Author: Lowell Meyer Date: 01/06/2010

IP Filtering Config

You may notice that the newest version of the Application Configuration Center contains fields for...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 12/14/2009

Updating an application configuration in Production

You can create and update your ApplicationId configuration in our Developer/PreProduction...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 11/09/2009

Handling HealthServiceCredentialTokenExpiredException in .NET SDK

Applications are expected to Handle the HealthServiceCredentialTokenExpiredException. The best way...

Author: VaibhavB [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2009

More About Certificate Errors

Here is some help on diagnosing some of the common modes of failure with HealthVault certificate...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 11/05/2009

Certificate Errors

Got a good question today from a long-time HealthVault Developer -- at least they are long-time in...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 10/22/2009

HealthVault Response Paging

There is a parameter on the HealthRecordFilter object called MaxFullItemsReturnedPerRequest and it...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 10/19/2009

Certificate Management

We get a lot of questions about managing your HealthVault application certificate. When your...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 10/19/2009

Email Addresses

We've had a few forum questions lately on email addresses so I figured I would send out some...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 10/16/2009

Deleting a Record

It is possible for end users to delete a HealthVault record but this function is not featured...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 10/05/2009

More about data type versioning

This is a supplement to Eric's blog post on Data Type Versioning in HealthVault. The HealthVault...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 09/21/2009

App authorization -- "what the app asks for" vs "what the user authorized"

There are two different elements that you are likely to think about when you think "authorization:"...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 09/21/2009

Optional Auth Rules -- showing, hiding, checking, unchecking

When a you add an optional auth rule to your application, by default it will not be shown to users...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 09/15/2009

What access do I have?

If you are using Optional Access in your HealthVault authorization rules, then at times you may want...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 09/03/2009

Recognizing that a file is a CCD

If an end user uses the "Upload a file" workflow in the HealthVault shell...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 06/22/2009

Identifying data type versions

Some of our developers have asked how to identify the most recent version of a HealthVault data type...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 04/10/2009

HealthVault platform exception: “The specified transform was not found.”

If you see HealthVault platform throw the above exception when you run...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/17/2009

Energy Burn from Pedometer Data

With the release of HealthVault 0901 (late January 2009), applications that access data uploaded...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/17/2009

Debugging proxy issues

Your web server is usually happy to respond to requests from outside users but is often not...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 01/30/2009

Microsoft.Health.HealthServiceException: The unique identifier for the person cannot be '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'.

A few application developers have seen this error message when trying to read data from a...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 01/23/2009

Live ID Reserved Domains

If you or your users are running into this error when trying to create Live IDs, read on. The...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 09/25/2008

My app was working before but now i get access denied

Several folks have run in to issues, where their application was working fine at some point and now...

Author: VaibhavB [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2008

Can I develop HealthVault applications using something other than .NET?

HealthVault is an XML-based API that is accessed over https and can be called from any platform that...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/14/2008

How do I access the schemas for HealthVault data types?

There are several links to schema information on the MSDN site in the learn tab. If you want to...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/09/2008

Are the SDK samples available in VB?

Currently, all of our samples are available only in C#. If there is sufficient partner interest in...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/08/2008

My app does not work after turning on SSL

If your application is working fine before you configure IIS to use SSL, make sure the following is...

Author: VaibhavB [MSFT] Date: 04/11/2008

XPS files and the .net framework

Much of the HealthVault SDK documentation uses the XPS file format. If you do not have an XPS viewer...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 03/26/2008

Where do I put my bits?

An application developer recently asked how much of a HealthVault-compatible application and its...

Author: Chris Tremonte Date: 02/08/2008

Troubleshooter: Error accessing site

This error occurs when the troubleshooter cannot access a specific site. If the error occurs when...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/12/2007

Troubleshooter: Application Certificate cannot be accessed

Currently, the platform prepends the characters "WildcatApp-" to the application ID, and uses that...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/12/2007

Troubleshooter: Missing or incorrect ApplicationId

In the web.config file, the ApplicationId section is missing or incorrectly formatted. The entry...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/12/2007

How do I find out who created an item?

If you fetch the audit information, you can find out who made a specific change. If there are...

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/29/2007

What is offline access, and can I use it?

See HealthVault applications and offline access

Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/26/2007

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