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Easily send random generated D2C messages to IoT Hub with Azure IoT Hub Tools

October 15, 2019 Oct 15, 2019 10/15/19
Zhenwei Zhang
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...

Debug Azure IoT Edge C# Remote Linux Module Container with Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3

September 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019 09/24/19
Renlong Tu
With the 16.3 release of Visual Studio 2019, it starts to support debugging C# in Linux docker containers. This new feature can help developers easily debug remote Azure IoT Edge C# Linux module container. Let’s see how it works. Prerequisites Setup Your Linux machine Setup Your Development Machine ...

Azure IoT Tools make it easy to monitor custom Event Hub endpoints

June 3, 2019 Jun 3, 2019 06/3/19
Jun Han
With your Azure IoT application becomes more and more complicated, it is a common scenario that developers leverage IoT Hub message routing to send device-to-cloud messages to different endpoints. Therefore, we want to a convenient way to view and monitor the custom endpoints. With Azure IoT Tools, developers could not only view all the ...

Debug IoT Edge C / C# Windows Module Container with Visual Studio Azure IoT Edge Tools

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19
Renlong Tu
Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for Visual Studio 2017 allows you to easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge modules locally. To learn how to use this extension to develop and debug Edge module locally, you can refer these documents: Easily Develop and Debug Azure IoT Edge C Modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools Use Visual Studio 2017 to ...

Debug IoT Edge C / C# Linux Module Container with Visual Studio Azure IoT Edge Tools

May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 05/8/19
Renlong Tu
Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for Visual Studio 2017 allows you to easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge modules locally. To learn how to use this extension to develop and debug Edge modules locally, you can refer these documents: Easily Develop and Debug Azure IoT Edge C Modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools Use Visual Studio 2017 to ...

Read Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpoints

March 15, 2019 Mar 15, 2019 03/15/19
Jun Han
IoT Hub Message Routing enables users to route device-to-cloud messages to service-facing endpoints. An IoT hub has a default built-in endpoint. You can create custom endpoints to route messages to by linking other services in your subscription to the hub. IoT Hub currently supports Azure Storage containers, Event Hubs, Service Bus queues...

Diagnose issues with Distributed Tracing for Azure IoT Hub (preview) in Visual Studio Code 

February 20, 2019 Feb 20, 2019 02/20/19
Rukmani Gopalan
Effective monitoring is instrumental in understanding and troubleshooting your modern cloud solution leveraging multiple services. Distributed tracing helps you diagnose issues in your cloud solution by providing the capability to track the flow of a call and the associated latency across these different services. Today, we announced the ...

Azure IoT Hub for VS Code 2.1.0: Great performance optimization, more code generation templates and UX improvement

January 11, 2019 Jan 11, 2019 01/11/19
Jun Han
Happy New Year! Azure IoT Hub for VS Code 2.1.0 is the first version released in the year of 2019. In the release, we have several great updates for performance optimization, code generation and user experience! You could see the full Changelog here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/vsciot-vscode.azure-iot-toolkit/changelog

A Workaround to Run Azure IoT Edge on ARM64 Devices

November 5, 2018 Nov 5, 2018 11/5/18
Ray Fang
Azure IoT Edge went generally available in June, with official support for AMD64 and ARM32 platforms. Recently, more and more developers from the community requested to run Azure IoT Edge on ARM64 (a.k.a. AArch64) devices such NVIDIA TX2. While the ARM64 support of Azure IoT Edge is still in progress, this post will introduce a workaround...

Azure IoT Hub for VS Code: 200K installs, Open Source always on the Way

November 2, 2018 Nov 2, 2018 11/2/18
Jun Han
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 ...

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