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Azure IoT Toolkit 1.2.0: Quickly build your Azure IoT application in VS Code with Node.js, Python or REST API
Do you know you could get started with Azure IoT very easily with popular languages such as Node.js and Python? With Azure IoT Toolkit, you could quickly build your Azure IoT application in VS Code in just a few minutes using Node.js, Python or REST API.
Azure IoT Toolkit 1.1.0 for VS Code released: Welcome page, generate SAS token, deploy Edge device at scale and more!
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's see the key features in this release! Welcome page The welcome page will be shown when user first install the Azure IoT Toolkit extension. It will help users to quickly get started with the extension. Generate SAS token SAS token is useful if you want to use Azure...
Use VS Code to call Azure IoT Hub REST APIs
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 Azure IoT Hub! Prerequisites Prepare HTTP request In VS Code, create a file called d2c.http with below CURL request, and replace {iothub-name} and {device-id}: Generate SAS token Right-click your device and select Generate SAS Token for Device. The SAS ...
Use VS Code as IoT Hub Device Simulator — Say Hello to Azure IoT Hub in 5 Minutes
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 see how easy it is to send a D2C (device-to-cloud) in VS Code! Say Hello to IoT Hub in VS Code in 5 minutes! Prerequisites Create an IoT hub The first step is to create an IoT hub in your subscription from VS Code. Register a device ...
Azure IoT Toolkit for Visual Studio Code generally available for managing Azure IoT Hub and Devices with ease
Last year, we release the preview version of Azure IoT Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code. With our continuous development, the Azure IoT Toolkit has a rich set of features to help IoT developers manage and develop Azure IoT Hub in Visual Studio Code. Now the Azure IoT Toolkit is generally available with over 100K downloads and all 5 stars ratings. One of the key feature for GA is the Azure IoT Toolkit supports the Azure Device Login to make you easily login to Azure and manage (create, select) your IoT Hub in VS Code. Another important feature set is support for the Azure IoT Edge. Azure IoT Ed...
Azure IoT Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code is now open sourced!
In our previous post Handy Tool When You Develop With Azure IoT, we introduced Azure IoT Toolkit extension, which provides some key features that help IoT developers to easily interact with Azure IoT Hub. Now we released a new version v0.6.0 and glad to share the news that the extension has been open sourced on GitHub! During last half of year, we added several important features and improved user experience for the extension. Here is the complete changelog. We have a demo video on channel 9 where you can check out this walkthrough of the extension.
Deploy Azure IoT Edge (preview) on a simulated device with Visual Studio Code
Azure IoT Edge enables you to perform analytics and data processing on your devices, instead of having to push all the data to the cloud. The IoT Edge tutorials demonstrate how to deploy different types of modules, built from Azure services or custom code, but first you need a device to test. In this tutorial you learn how to: The simulated device that you create in this tutorial is a monitor on a wind turbine that generates temperature, humidity, and pressure data. You're interested in this data because your turbines perform at different levels of efficiency depending on the weather condi...
New Features in Visual Studio Code IoT Edge Extension 0.1.3 & IoT Toolkit 0.5.0
At the Connect(); 2017 in last November, we announced public preview of Azure IoT Edge. Now you can bring the intelligence of the Cloud right to the IoT Edge as well as easily create and manage business logic for your devices. The new Azure IoT Edge extension for Visual Studio Code along with the updated Azure IoT Toolkit extension will make your IoT Edge developments a real pleasure, providing a set of functionalities including: Recently an updated version of Visual Studio Code IoT Edge and IoT Toolkit extensions with a bunch of new features for Azure IoT Edge developers are now avai...
New Azure IoT services supported by IoT DevKit
It's been around 4 months since we release our official hardware and SDK as v1.0 last September right on Ignite 2017. In that event, the MXChip IoT DevKit was used on a couple of Azure IoT break-out and keynote sessions for demonstrations and together with announcement with new services released such as IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service. And now, with the general availability of these services to the public, the DevKit also come with updates on the SDK and more importantly, tutorials that can help developers evaluate them in the first place with real devices. Now, a couple of updates around what have been ad...