Releasing Your Application to End Users
After testing your application thoroughly, including the conditions listed in the previous section, you are ready to release it to end users. The HealthVault team has documented the release process, termed the Go-Live Process, on the HealthVault Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/bb962148.
The first step in this process it to ensure that you have signed a business agreement with HealthVault and have an identifier associated with your partner account. This is a nontechnical step and can be done long before your application is ready to be released.
Having established a partner account with Microsoft, you can submit a request to the technical team to review your application in the preproduction environment and push it to the HealthVault production environment. The review typically tests that your application plays well in the HealthVault ecosystem and uses the brand appropriately.
Once your application is available for the world to use, an important step is to network with fellow applications! This can be done using the wiki provided by the HealthVault team at http://partners.mshealthcommunity.com/hv_eco/w/wiki/partner-directory.aspx. In addition to business networking, this wiki is used by applications to notify the development community of any extensions to data types that they have implemented. Having well-documented extensions available makes it easy for other applications to work with data created by your application, ...
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