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Azure IoT Hub for VS Code: 200K installs, Open Source always on the Way
Really another milestone! We are glad to see that the Azure IoT Hub for VS Code has reached 200K installs now, with all 5-star ratings. More and more Azure IoT developers are using Azure IoT Hub for VS Code in their daily work. Azure IoT Hub for VS Code makes it easy to develop, build, deploy and test your Azure IoT application in the same developer tool, without any context switch: From creating a new IoT Hub and IoT device, to generating your Azure IoT application code, to running and testing your Azure IoT application in your VS Code. Moreover, with the power of Open Source, we have seen mor...
Create a CI/CD pipeline for your IoT Edge solution with Azure DevOps
Modern software moves fast and demands more from developers than ever. Tools and concepts around CI/CD help developers deliver value faster and more transparently. For Azure IoT Edge, we provide two tools to create CI/CD pipeline. In this post, we would introduce Azure IoT Edge for DevOps.
Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update
Update:Launch is now scheduled for early 2019 to ensure you have the best blog experience. We appreciate all of the feedback so far and we look forward to showing what we’ve been working on! In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This week, you’ll see the Visual Studio, IoTDev, and Premier Developer blogs move to a new URL – while additional developer blogs will transition over the coming weeks. You'll continue to receive all the information and news from our...
Introducing Visual Studio Tools for Azure IoT Edge
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 Edge project in Visual Studio, add C# custom modules, build and push them to IoT Edge devices. You can debug single C# module or multiple modules at the same time in Visual Studio locally. In this post, we'll walk you through how to use Visual Studio 2017 to crea...
Azure IoT Toolkit supports IoT Hub Module Management (Module Twin, Module Direct Method, Module CRUD)
With the v1.4.0 release of Azure IoT Toolkit, it supports module management. You could easily create module, view module twin, update module twin, invoke module direct method and delete module in VS Code.
Azure IoT Toolkit supports C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby to develop Azure IoT application in VS Code
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 favorite programing language? Which language would you like to develop an Azure IoT application? For scripting languages (Go, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby), the steps are pretty easy, you could follow this blog post to quickly make that. For compiled language (C# and Java...
Introducing yet another approach for iot compiler toolchains – iotz
iotz is an extension based containerized wrapper for other IoT compiler toolchains. There are many toolchains with specific needs and way of using. We developed this experimental tool to make compiling things easier.
Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.2.0 has been released – Now run IoT Edge modules with simulator
What’s new in IoT Edge for VS Code 1.2.0: 1. Now you and run IoT Edge solution with the built-in IoT Edge simulator without deploying to IoT Edge device.
Azure IoT Workbench now supports ESP32 devices
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. And now, we are happy to announce the support for ESP32 devices from Espressif. And moreover, we continued to improve the fundamentals of the product with new mini solutions added to further enrich the samples IoT developers can learn to build with their devkit devices. Check out...