Introducing Visual Studio Tools for Azure IoT Edge

September 25, 2018 Sep 25, 2018 09/25/18
Xin Shi
Today we are pleased to announce a preview of Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio 2017. Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service that delivers cloud intelligence locally by deploying and running artificial intelligence (AI), Azure services, and custom logic directly on cross-platform IoT devices. This preview offers the ability to create ...

Azure IoT Toolkit supports C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby to develop Azure IoT application in VS Code

August 31, 2018 Aug 31, 2018 08/31/18
Jun Han
With the latest release of Azure IoT Toolkit, lots of popular languages are supported to quickly create an Azure IoT application in VS Code: C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby! (Note: For C#, Java, Node.js and Python, it is based on Azure IoT Hub SDK, while for Go, PHP and Ruby, it is based on Azure IoT Hub REST API.) What's your ...

Azure IoT Workbench now supports ESP32 devices

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18
Liya (Liki) Du
In April this year, we released our first public preview of Azure IoT Workbench in Visual Studio Code, an IoT development environment aims to make it easy to code, build, deploy and debug your IoT project for MXChip IoT DevKit. From this one DevKit, we gradually add more popular Azure supported development kits such as teXXmo IoT Button. ...

Azure IoT Toolkit 1.1.0 for VS Code released: Welcome page, generate SAS token, deploy Edge device at scale and more!

July 26, 2018 Jul 26, 2018 07/26/18
Jun Han
Shortly after GA of Azure IoT Toolkit for VS Code, We are pleased to announce that the 1.1.0 release of the Azure IoT Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace. You can download the Azure IoT Toolkit extension from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. Let...

Use VS Code to call Azure IoT Hub REST APIs

July 19, 2018 Jul 19, 2018 07/19/18
Jun Han
The REST APIs for IoT Hub offer programmatic access to the device, messaging, and job services, as well as the resource provider, in IoT Hub. With the Azure IoT Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code, you could easily use IoT Hub REST APIs in VS Code, no extra toolchain needed! Let's see how quick it is to send a device-to-cloud message to ...

Use VS Code as IoT Hub Device Simulator — Say Hello to Azure IoT Hub in 5 Minutes

July 12, 2018 Jul 12, 2018 07/12/18
Jun Han
When doing development for Azure IoT solutions, developers may want to test and debug his cloud solution with a real device. However, not every developer has a real device in his hand.  With the Azure IoT Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code, you could easily use VS Code as a device simulator to quickly interact with Azure IoT Hub. Let's ...