Today, the Health Solutions Group is reinforcing its commitment to interoperability with the public disclosure of three things:
- First, Microsoft is demonstrating our commitment to cross-platform development by establishing a set of open "wrapper" libraries that facilitate HealthVault development across a broad set of environments.
- Second, over the next few months (late Spring) we will be releasing our complete .NET SDK on Codeplex under the Microsoft Reference License -- meaning that full source code will be available, but that Microsoft retains control over updates to this specific project. We have heard from partners that they want to have one place to go to understand the "official" way of interacting with HealthVault, so ensuring that only we make updates to this project makes sense.
- Finally -- and most importantly -- we will release the HealthVault platform XML interface protocols -- the stuff required to recreate and re-implement the HealthVault service -- under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP).
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