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Advanced authoring for Digital Twins models now in Visual Studio and VS Code
Announcing a new extension to help you editing Digital Twins Definition Language or DTDL documents, including intellisense and validation.
Standalone Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool (iotedgehubdev) Introduction
As an IoT developer, when you work with Azure IoT Edge project, one of the issues you might have is that you would like to debug your Edge modules locally before actually deploy them to the production environment. This can be done by Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool (iotedgehubdev), which provides a local development experience for creating, testing, running and debugging Azure IoT Edge modules and solutions. Using Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool, you do not need to install IoT Edge Runtime on your local machine, and all you need is to install Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool and Docker, which greatly smooth the development of Az...
Easily send random generated D2C messages to IoT Hub with Azure IoT Hub Tools
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 should be randomly generated for each message, and he want to send these message repeatedly, each with a fixed interval, like one second, as is done by true temperature sensors. This is a very common scenario in IoT development, frustrating a lot of programmers. Here is ...
Visual Studio Cloud Explorer now supports Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service
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 provisioning to the right IoT hub without requiring human intervention, enabling customers to provision millions of devices in a secure and scalable manner. We’re pleased to announce that Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 now supports the IoT Hub Device Provisioning...
Debug Azure IoT Edge C# Remote Linux Module Container with Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3
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 Debug C# Module Container Running in Remote Edge Device Summary With the new release of Visual Studio 2019, now you can easily debug Azure IoT Edge C# Linux module containers. You can download and try it with Visual Studio ...
Convert your docker-compose Project to Azure IoT Edge Solution
If you are a container expert, you may want to port your existing compose application to Azure IoT Edge. We are glad to introduce iotedge-compose to help convert your docker-compose project to Azure IoT Edge. Let us see how it works. Prerequisites Install the Tool and Convert a Sample Project Build and deploy converted project to IoT Edge device Now you should see an app-edge folder in the root folder, this folder is the converted Azure IoT Edge project. Summary This blog walks you through the basic usage of the iotedge-compose tool...
Azure IoT DevOps Projects now General Available to help you easily initialize a CI/CD ready IoT Edge project
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 excited to announce the General Availability of IoT Azure DevOps Projects. With the IoT Azure DevOps Projects, you could easily initialize a new IoT Edge project with recommended CI/CD practices in a few clicks. The IoT Azure DevOps Projects was initially released on Decemb...
Develop and debug ARM64 IoT Edge modules in Visual Studio Code (preview)
Develop and debug ARM64 IoT Edge modules in Visual Studio Code With the release of IoT Edge 1.0.8, developers can preview the IoT Edge support on ARM64 IoT Edge devices. In the meanwhile, I’m glad to share the steps of developing and debugging ARM64 IoT Edge custom modules in VS Code. Prerequisites This post assumes that you use a computer or virtual machine running Windows, Linux or macOS as your development machine, follow the instructions to set up your develop machine with VS Code. Your IoT Edge device can be another physical device. Typically the device can be an Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 (Follow the instructio...
Containerized tool chain to simplify IoT device development
Use containerized device tool chain in Azure IoT Device Workbench to simplify device tool chain acquisition challenge.
Azure IoT Tools make it easy to monitor custom Event Hub endpoints
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 endpoints in VS Code, but also monitor custom Event Hub endpoints with ease. View built-in and custom endpoints In Azure IoT Hub explorer, you could see all the built-in and custom endpoints, include Event Hubs, Service Bus queue, Service Bus topic and Blob storage. Monitor...
Debug IoT Edge C / C# Windows Module Container with Visual Studio Azure IoT Edge Tools
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 develop and debug modules for Azure IoT Edge (Preview) However, remote debugging module container running in Edge device is not straightforward. This tutorial will demonstrate how to remotely debug C / C# Windows module container from your dev machine. For Linux and ARM pl...
Debug IoT Edge C / C# Linux Module Container with Visual Studio Azure IoT Edge Tools
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 develop and debug modules for Azure IoT Edge (Preview) However, remote debugging module container running in Edge device is not straightforward. This tutorial will use Raspberry Pi to demonstrate how to remotely debug C/C# Linux module container from dev machine. For Wind...
Easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for Raspberry Pi in Visual Studio 2017
With 0.4.5 release of Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for Visual Studio 2017, the tool has provided a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions in Visual Studio 2017: In the latest release, we’ve added the support for new platform arm32v7. Next, we’ll walk you through how to use Visual Studio 2017 to create, build, debug and deploy IoT Edge solutions for your Raspberry Pi as an IoT Edge device. Please refer the following tutorial links if you want to run IoT Edge on Linux amd64 or Windows amd64: Use Visual Studio 2017 to develop and debug modules...
Azure IoT Device Workbench bumped to 0.2.6 with more cool samples and huge performance improvement
It's April the Fool but this is real. We made a huge performance improvement by reduing the extension load-up time 10 times faster. Here are what's new for Azure IoT Device Workbench 0.2.6: What's new Suggestions and Feedback Azure IoT Device Workbench project is open-sourced on Github. If you have any feature request or encounter any issues during your daily usage, don’t hesitate to create issue on our Github repository. We are all ears. And soon we will have some more exciting features to be unvealed, stay tuned!
Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 has been released – import modules from Azure marketplace
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 Click to see the changelog in Github repo for more details of 1.11.0 release. Resources
Read Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpoints
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, and Service Bus topics as custom endpoints. During development and operation, developers would want to monitor the device-to-cloud messages to see whether the Azure IoT application is working well. In this article, we will go through how to read device-to-cloud messages from th...
Easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge C modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) 0.3.1
NOTE: Although this post is using Visual Studio 2017 as example, you could also successfully complete this tutorial with Visual Studio 2019 and Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for VS 2019. With 0.3.1 release of Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview), you can use Visual Studio 2017 to develop and debug C modules for Azure IoT Edge. Prerequisites Switch to Windows Containers This doc will use windows containers to demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy C modules using Windows IoT Edge project (which ending with Windows.Amd64 by default). Note: If you plan to bui...
Diagnose issues with Distributed Tracing for Azure IoT Hub (preview) in Visual Studio Code
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 public preview of distributed tracing support in Azure IoT Hub. You can leverage the IoT Hub logs with distributed tracing information to monitor the flow of messages through the IoT Hub and troubleshoot problems related to message loss or performance. You can further aggregat...
Easily build and debug IoT Edge modules on your remote device with Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.9.0.
Recently, both Docker and Moby engine support SSH connection, which means you can connect a remote Docker engine more easily than before. In Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.9.0, we introduced a new extension setting(azure-iot-edge.executor.env) to inject environment variables into VS Code terminals. By leveraging the new setting and the new SSH connection feature, you can easily complete the tasks below now. Since we can rely on the container engine on the remote machine, we can now run VS Code on our amd64 development machine and build images with an arm device. I’d like to use Raspberry Pi as my IoT E...
Azure IoT Hub for VS Code 2.1.0: Great performance optimization, more code generation templates and UX improvement
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
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.
Introducing Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code
Azure IoT Tools for VS Code is an extension pack for Visual Studio Code that lets you get all you need for Azure IoT development with 1-click installation. Microsoft Azure IoT support for Visual Studio Code is provided through a rich set of extensions that make it easy to discover and interact with Azure IoT Hub that power your IoT Edge and device applications. The Azure IoT Tools provides the following benefits: Installation By installing this extension you will install all of the extensions listed above. Some of these extensions will have a dependency on the Azure Account extension to provide ...
Continue using Hyper-V container for IoT Edge on Windows 10 1803
With Azure IoT Edge 1.0.5 release, developers should use process isolation container to build and run IoT Edge modules for Windows 1809 (Windows 10 October 2018 Update) IoT Edge device. And Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio and Azure IoT Edge for Visual Studio Code also updated its default project template to align with 1809 requirements. You can follow the tutorials for VS or VS Code to build 1809 C# module with the dockerfile.windows-amd64 in the module folder. However, if you still want to use Hyper-V container for Windows 1803 (or before) IoT Edge device. Here comes the instructions. Continue developing...
Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.6.0 has been released – One click to switch your IoT Edge platform
Now Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.6.0 has been released with a bunch of new features.
Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.6.0 has been released – One click to switch IoT Edge platform
Now Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.6.0 has been released with a bunch of new features. What’s new in Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.6.0 Click to see the changelog in Github repo for more details of 1.6.0 release. Resources
Setup Azure IoT Edge CI/CD Pipeline with ARM Agent
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 for an Edge solution to be applied to target Edge device(s), a deployment needs to be created in IoT Hub. The Azure IoT Edge for Azure Pipelines extension is a tool for you to easily setup CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps. It provides Build and Push task for continuous int...
A Workaround to Run Azure IoT Edge on ARM64 Devices
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. When we talk about "running Azure IoT Edge", what we actually mean is running both the Azure IoT Edge security daemon (including its dependencies such as hsmlib) and the Azure IoT Edge runtime images (i.e., edgeAgent and edgeHub). As a result, the workaround requires changes t...