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Standalone Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool (iotedgehubdev) Introduction

December 24, 2019 Dec 24, 2019 12/24/19
Renlong Tu
As an IoT developer, when you work with Azure IoT Edge project, one of the issues you might have is that you would like to debug your Edge modules locally before actually deploy them to the production environment. This can be done by Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool (iotedgehubdev), which provides a local development experience for creating, testing...

Easily send random generated D2C messages to IoT Hub with Azure IoT Hub Tools

October 15, 2019 Oct 15, 2019 10/15/19
Zhenwei Zhang
Z, a software engineer, developed an application about a smart home assistant using Azure IoT service, and he wonders if the application works fine. He want to send messages indicating time and temperature to IoT Hub from many devices simultaneously each for many iterations, so these messages should be formed in a similar template but the data...

Visual Studio Cloud Explorer now supports Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service

September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19
Chaoyi Yuan
In the world of IoT, there’re many device provisioning scenarios. For example, solution providers would expect a zero-touch provisioning to a single IoT solution without hardcoding IoT Hub connection information at the factory. The IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service is a helper service for IoT Hub that enables zero-touch, just-in-time ...

Debug Azure IoT Edge C# Remote Linux Module Container with Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3

September 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019 09/24/19
Renlong Tu
With the 16.3 release of Visual Studio 2019, it starts to support debugging C# in Linux docker containers. This new feature can help developers easily debug remote Azure IoT Edge C# Linux module container. Let’s see how it works. Prerequisites Setup Your Linux machine Install and config Azure IoT Edge runtime on your remote Linux ...

Convert your docker-compose Project to Azure IoT Edge Solution

September 20, 2019 Sep 20, 2019 09/20/19
Xin Shi
If you are a container expert, you may want to port your existing compose application to Azure IoT Edge. We are glad to introduce iotedge-compose to help convert your docker-compose project to Azure IoT Edge. Let us see how it works. Prerequisites Make sure Docker Desktop is running on your system before using this tool. Python ...

Azure IoT DevOps Projects now General Available to help you easily initialize a CI/CD ready IoT Edge project

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Chaoyi Yuan
With the shift of modern software development, developers need to do more than ever. Having a CI/CD pipeline could help developers deliver value faster and more transparently. For Azure IoT Edge, we already have a built-in Azure IoT Edge task in Azure Pipelines to help you easily adopt DevOps with your Azure IoT Edge applications. Now we're ...

Develop and debug ARM64 IoT Edge modules in Visual Studio Code (preview)

July 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019 07/24/19
Xin Shi
Develop and debug ARM64 IoT Edge modules in Visual Studio Code With the release of IoT Edge 1.0.8, developers can preview the IoT Edge support on ARM64 IoT Edge devices. In the meanwhile, I’m glad to share the steps of developing and debugging ARM64 IoT Edge custom modules in VS Code. Prerequisites This post assumes that you use a ...
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Azure IoT Tools make it easy to monitor custom Event Hub endpoints

June 3, 2019 Jun 3, 2019 06/3/19
Jun Han
With your Azure IoT application becomes more and more complicated, it is a common scenario that developers leverage IoT Hub message routing to send device-to-cloud messages to different endpoints. Therefore, we want to a convenient way to view and monitor the custom endpoints. With Azure IoT Tools, developers could not only view all the ...