IoT Developer

Tooling and Experience

Standalone Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool (iotedgehubdev) Introduction

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

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

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 ...

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

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)

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 ...