Erich Wang

With 0.3.1 release of Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview), you can use Visual Studio 2017 to develop and debug C modules for Azure IoT Edge.

Prerequisites

• OS: Windows 10 with 1809 update
• Visual Studio 2017 with update 7 or later,

This post first explains the different connection strings in Azure IoT Hub, then gives a simple IoT Hub solution Integrate Azure Functions with Azure IoT Hub using all three connection strings.

Connection Strings

There’re three types of connection strings in Azure IoT Hub:

• IoT Hub connection string
• IoT Hub’s Event Hub-compatible connection string
• IoT Hub device connection string

IoT Hub Connection String

• • Usage

Used mainly for device registration/un-registration.