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HealthVault FAQ

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

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

Date: 02/21/2011

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

Date: 02/14/2011

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

Date: 01/21/2011

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

Date: 01/07/2011

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

Date: 12/20/2010

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

Date: 12/14/2010

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

Date: 11/23/2010

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

Date: 11/10/2010

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

Date: 05/24/2010

The HealthVault Application Configuration Center is available at...

Date: 03/09/2010

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

Date: 02/24/2010

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

Date: 02/19/2010

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

Date: 02/17/2010

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

Date: 02/11/2010

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

Date: 01/26/2010

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

Date: 01/25/2010

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

Date: 01/06/2010

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

Date: 12/14/2009

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

Date: 11/09/2009

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

Date: 11/06/2009

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

Date: 11/05/2009

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

Date: 10/22/2009

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

Date: 10/19/2009

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

Date: 10/19/2009

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

Date: 10/16/2009

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

Date: 10/05/2009

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

Date: 09/21/2009

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

Date: 09/21/2009

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

Date: 09/15/2009

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

Date: 09/03/2009

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

Date: 06/22/2009

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

Date: 04/10/2009

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

Date: 02/17/2009

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

Date: 02/17/2009

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

Date: 01/30/2009

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

Date: 01/23/2009

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

Date: 09/25/2008

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

Date: 06/06/2008

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

Date: 05/14/2008

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

Date: 05/09/2008

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

Date: 05/08/2008

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

Date: 04/11/2008

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

Date: 03/26/2008

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

Date: 02/08/2008

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

Date: 12/12/2007

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

Date: 12/12/2007

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

Date: 12/12/2007

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

Date: 11/29/2007

See HealthVault applications and offline access

Date: 10/26/2007

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