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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 05/24/2010
Accessing your application configuration
The HealthVault Application Configuration Center is available at...
Date: 03/09/2010
Rich client options
Most of our HealthVault documentation on samples focuses on building web applications but you can...
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...
Date: 02/19/2010
Absolute URLs for NonProductionActionUrlRedirectOverride
Our sample HealthVault applications in our HealthVault SDK all use relative paths for their...
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...
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…...
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...
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...
Date: 01/06/2010
IP Filtering Config
You may notice that the newest version of the Application Configuration Center contains fields for...
Date: 12/14/2009
Updating an application configuration in Production
You can create and update your ApplicationId configuration in our Developer/PreProduction...
Date: 11/09/2009
Handling HealthServiceCredentialTokenExpiredException in .NET SDK
Applications are expected to Handle the HealthServiceCredentialTokenExpiredException. The best way...
Date: 11/06/2009
More About Certificate Errors
Here is some help on diagnosing some of the common modes of failure with HealthVault certificate...
Date: 11/05/2009
Certificate Errors
Got a good question today from a long-time HealthVault Developer -- at least they are long-time in...
Date: 10/22/2009
HealthVault Response Paging
There is a parameter on the HealthRecordFilter object called MaxFullItemsReturnedPerRequest and it...
Date: 10/19/2009
Certificate Management
We get a lot of questions about managing your HealthVault application certificate. When your...
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...
Date: 10/16/2009
Deleting a Record
It is possible for end users to delete a HealthVault record but this function is not featured...
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...
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:"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 02/17/2009
Energy Burn from Pedometer Data
With the release of HealthVault 0901 (late January 2009), applications that access data uploaded...
Date: 02/17/2009
Debugging proxy issues
Your web server is usually happy to respond to requests from outside users but is often not...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 03/26/2008
Where do I put my bits?
An application developer recently asked how much of a HealthVault-compatible application and its...
Date: 02/08/2008
Troubleshooter: Error accessing site
This error occurs when the troubleshooter cannot access a specific site. If the error occurs when...
Date: 12/12/2007
Troubleshooter: Application Certificate cannot be accessed
Currently, the platform prepends the characters "WildcatApp-" to the application ID, and uses that...
Date: 12/12/2007
Troubleshooter: Missing or incorrect ApplicationId
In the web.config file, the ApplicationId section is missing or incorrectly formatted. The entry...
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...
Date: 11/29/2007
What is offline access, and can I use it?
See HealthVault applications and offline access
Date: 10/26/2007