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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...

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 Install and config Azure IoT Edge runtime on your remote Linux ...

Azure IoT DevOps Projects now General Available to help you easily initialize a CI/CD ready IoT Edge project

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Chaoyi Yuan
With the shift of modern software development, developers need to do more than ever. Having a CI/CD pipeline could help developers deliver value faster and more transparently. For Azure IoT Edge, we already have a built-in Azure IoT Edge task in Azure Pipelines to help you easily adopt DevOps with your Azure IoT Edge applications. Now we're ...

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 ...

Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 has been released – import modules from Azure marketplace

March 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019 03/26/19
Xin Shi
Now Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 has been released with a bunch of new features. What’s new in Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 You can easily import IoT Edge modules from Azure Marketplace in VS Code. To trigger this command, when creating new solutions or add new modules, select Modules from Azure Marketplace. ...

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

Setup Azure IoT Edge CI/CD Pipeline with ARM Agent

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18
michaeljqzq
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. An Edge solution contains one or more modules, which are hosted as docker images and run in docker container on Edge device. In order ...

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...