Azure IoT Edge Tools for Visual Studio 2022

Overview

Azure IoT Edge Tools makes it easy to code, build, deploy, and debug your IoT Edge solutions in Visual Studio 2022, by providing a rich set of functionalities:

• New Azure IoT Edge project targeting different platforms (Linux amd64, Linux arm32v7, Linux arm64v8, Windows amd64)
• Add a new IoT Edge module (C#/C) to solution
• Edit, build and debug IoT Edge modules locally on your Visual Studio machine
• Build and push docker images of IoT Edge modules
• Run IoT Edge modules in a local or remote simulator

What's new (v2.0.8)

• Restrict support to IoTEdge v1.4

What's new (v2.0.7)

• Update to v0.14.18 of simulation manager.

What's new (v2.0.6)

• Update to v0.14.14 of simulation manager.

What's new (v2.0.5)

• Update to v0.14.12 of simulation manager.

What's new (v2.0.4)

• Accepts DEVICE_CONNECTION_STRING and IOTHUB_CONNECTION_STRING environment variables if set.

What's new (v2.0.3)

• Allow release candidate versions of the simulator.

What's new (v2.0.2)

• Introduce a baseline version for the simulator.
• Allow IOTEDGEHUBDEV_VERSION environment variable to override the baseline version.

What's new (v2.0.1)

• Do not record the connection string

What's new (v2.0)

• Add support for IoTEdge Runtime version 1.2

What's new (v1.9)

• Add a new option to allow selection of IoTEdge Runtime version.

What's new (v1.8)

• Update to learn the deployment process
• Version increment, no changes to functionality

What's new (v1.7)

• Support arm64v8 platform
• C# module template update to .Net Core 3.1

What's New (v1.6)

• Retry to download standalone simulator when error occurs
• Use pip API instead of GitHub API to avoid rate limitation
• Optimize telemetry
• Fix invalid default module name of some marketplace modules

What's New (v1.5)

• Support IoT Hub connection string when setup simulator
• Support adding module with repository URL
• Show warning message when module is referenced but not used
• Fix default routes always added when opening Visual Studio

What's New (v1.4)

• Support standalone simulator
• Detect docker status when open an Azure IoT Edge project

What's New (v1.3)

• Remove temp sensor module when user skip adding custom module
• Do not push image when start simulator

What's New (v1.2)

• Check existing project names when adding new module to avoid exception
• Rename tempSensor to SimulatedTemperatureSensor in deployment template file
• Fix the issue that module in solution folder cannot start debugger correctly

What's New (v1.1.1)

• Fix marketplace cannot load issue

What's New (v1.1)

• Add dialog to help user to setup device connection string when start simulator failed
• Allow environment variables in image URL
• Use obj folder to store local debug json file
• Automatically stop simulator when terminate debugger
• Fix high DPI issue of description text in add module dialog

What's New (v1.0)

• Remove preview label and update document

What's New(v0.6)

• Enable adding modules from Azure marketplace
• Use deployment.debug.template.json to support Debug configuration for IoT Edge project
• Enable schema validation for deployment template file
• Fix some bugs

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2022: ".NET desktop development" and "Azure development workload" workload installed; "Windows desktop development with C++" is needed if you plan to develop C modules
• Docker Community Edition on your development machine to build and run your module images. You need to properly set the Docker CE running in Linux container mode or Windows container mode.

Quickstarts

Please refer to Use Visual Studio 2022 to develop and debug C# modules for Azure IoT Edge.

Feedback

Please send email to vsciet@microsoft.com or create an issue for questions, bugs or feature requests.

Roadmap

The product team is working on adding more features for Azure IoT Edge Visual Studio tools.

• More languages including Python, etc.
• Integrate with Azure Functions tools, Azure Stream Analytics tools to enable service module experience on IoT Edge in Visual Studio