With 0.4.5 release of Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for Visual Studio 2017, the tool has provided a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions in Visual Studio 2017:
New Azure IoT Edge project targeting different platforms (Linux amd64,
NOTE: Although this post is using Visual Studio 2017 as example, you could also successfully complete this tutorial with Visual Studio 2019 and Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for VS 2019.
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.
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.
