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IoT Developers, Check Out These Development Tools!

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17
Zhidi Shang
Many developers have heard about the buzz: Internet of Things (IoT).  As a standalone IT field, IoT has attracted lots of attentions for its huge potentials. But the ecosystem of IoT is too complicated and fragmented, leaving people easily get lost.   IoT Developers Need Tools In recent years, more and more people realized that ...

Find What You Want to Learn about IoT with Our Extended IoT Scenarios

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
alan_liang
IoT is deeply connected with many different fields in technology. From big data to machine learning, all of these topics combined together may perhaps overload new IoT developers on where to begin and what projects to start developing. In response, we at the Azure IoT developer division have written many different use-case tutorials for ...

Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino is now open sourced!

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17
Zhidi Shang
We are glad to share the news that the Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino has been open sourced on GitHub.com at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-arduino! This is a great team effort to provide a good development experience for Arduino developers. Microsoft embraces open source. Thousands of Microsoft engineers use, contribute ...

MXChip IoT DevKit board package v1.0.0 is now available

June 30, 2017 Jun 30, 2017 06/30/17
Xin Shi
After a month work of stabilizing the code, fixing bugs and adding more samples, we are happy to release the v1.0.0 for our IoT DevKit. You can download the latest package by following the get started guide or from direct link here. And soon we will open source the stacks including firmware, toolchain and all sample projects code. Please check...

Get Started with Azure IoT today

May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017 05/23/17
Xin Shi
At //Build 2017, Microsoft Azure made several announcements related to get started development experience with Azure IoT. Based on customers' feedback, most of the developers are focusing on the device-cloud connectivity. Today, you can find more uniformed tutorials about how to connect your devices to Azure IoT and other Azure cloud services...

MXChip IoT Developer Kit debut at //build 2017

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Xinyi Zhang
Last week, we participated in Microsoft's annual developer conference //build 2017. We were super excited to present our first preview version of the MXChip IoT Developer Kit, an Arduino compatible board with rich peripherals that uses Visual Studio Code for development. Our goal was to demonstrate the ease of developing IoT apps by leveraging...

Now, Write Arduino Program in Visual Studio Code

April 26, 2017 Apr 26, 2017 04/26/17
Rong Li
Recently, we released Arduino Extension for Visual Studio Code. It brings modern code editing experience to the beloved Arduino platform. Here's what's inside: Technically, the extension was built on top of the Arduino IDE, so you get exactly the same build results of using the original IDE. The ...

Scenario-based tutorials to learn IoT development with Azure and Azure IoT Hub

April 24, 2017 Apr 24, 2017 04/24/17
Xin Shi
Have you ever considered connecting your IoT device to the cloud? Or did you want to build a small IoT solution with your devices and sensors? Now Azure IoT provides you a series of scenario-based tutorials that can help jump start your IoT journey with Azure and Azure IoT Hub.   As a Program Manager from Microsoft Developer ...