Entries from December 2007 ↓

The most common supported development platform for health vault is VS-2005 on Windows XP or Vista.

In you project you will need to include the following dlls Microsoft.Health.dll and Microsoft.Health.Web.dll.

A discussion of health vault devices can be found on channel 9. The WPD user mode driver on the client side deals with connecting to the device and converting the proprietary data format from the device to HealthVault data types.

It will be interesting to have a dicussion of what all do we need to make such a user mode client driver for Windows Mobile devices. Will it amount to that for every new health application on the mobile device we need to have a separate WPD client driver ?

A simple search “health vault sdk” in google does not give the health vault sdk site in first few results. Apparently some other properties has a higher page rank and are thought do be more relecant.

Also Live Search thinks that the health vault blog is more relevant in case of “health vault sdk” than the corresponding SDK page. One way the blog can feed in to MSDN is by having links for it.

Any opinions from the SEO gurus?

1. Install Microsoft Visual Web Developer Edition, choose to install the SQL Express Edition and the Help. This will take about 30 minutes on a 60KB/Sec connection.
2. Health Vault SDK. The search returns SDK as second item on search.msn.com while it doesn’t show up in google.com
3. Sign up for a health vault account
   Caveat: Getting the Promo code might take a little time.
4. Read the Getting started document to get familiar with the following steps.

5. My development environment is Windows Vista with VS 8 however the suggested environment is

By far the easiest development environment to work with is Windows XP SP2 + Visual Studio .NET 2005 + ASP.NET Development Server.

Trying the – Hello World application and gets me in to the following –

Let me know if you see the problem, or check back for a solution, until then good evening! .