IoT Developer

Tooling and Experience

Advanced authoring for Digital Twins models now in Visual Studio and VS Code

July 24, 2020 Jul 24, 2020 07/24/20

Rido

Announcing a new extension to help you editing Digital Twins Definition Language or DTDL documents, including intellisense and validation.

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...

Visual Studio Cloud Explorer now supports Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service

September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19

Chaoyi Yuan

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 ...

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 ...

Containerized tool chain to simplify IoT device development

July 9, 2019 Jul 9, 2019 07/9/19

Liya (Liki) Du

Use containerized device tool chain in Azure IoT Device Workbench to simplify device tool chain acquisition challenge.

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 ...

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

New year, new experience and new sample for Azure IoT Device Workbench

January 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019 01/10/19

Liya (Liki) Du

Together with the new Azure IoT Tools for VS Code extension pack, we also overhauled the experience of Azure IoT Device Workbench. And there is another exciting sample contributed by Chris Lovett (Github) from Microsoft Research about running Embedded Learning Library (ELL) on MXChip IoT DevKit to achieve the keyword spotting locally.