Azure IoT Edge Tools makes it easy to code, build, deploy, and debug your IoT Edge solutions in Visual Studio 2017, by providing a rich set of functionalities:
New Azure IoT Edge project targeting different platforms (Linux amd64, Linux arm32v7, 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
Manage IoT Edge devices and modules in IoT Hub (with Cloud Explorer)
Tips
1.6.0 is the last available version for Visual Studio 2017. We highly recommend that you upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 for new features and bug fixes of this extension.
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
What's New (v0.5.1)
Remove the dependency on Nuget package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.IoT.Edge.MSBuildTasks for IoT Edge project
Allow switch among supported platforms (Linux amd64/Linux arm32v7/Windows amd64) for IoT Edge project
Support relative path for image of module in deployment template file
Support environment variables in module.json
Move "Target Platform"/"Target Configuration" of IoT Edge Project from Properties Pages to Properties Windows
Fix some bugs
NOTE: The IoT Edge project created by this version(>=0.5) could not be opened by previous versions.
What's New (v0.4.5)
Use different project templates for different platforms
Support environment variables in deployment.template.json
Automatically add environment and .env for private registry during adding module
What's New (v0.4.0)
Support ARM32v7
Set DOCKER_HOST in Tools->Options->IoT Edge Tools
What's New (v0.3.1)
Support C Module
What's New (v0.2.0)
Add support for multiple deployment projects (.iotedgeproj) in one solution. Now each .iotedgeproj will only support one arch,
you need to add multiple .iotedgeproj if need to support multiple arch.
UI refine
What's New (v0.1.7)
Update your existing IoT Edge projects to refer to nuget package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.IoT.Edge.MSBuildTasks to latest version 0.1.4
What's New (v0.1.5)
Add contextPath in module.json to support docker build context, contextPath is relative path based the folder containing module.json
Requirements
Visual Studio 2017 15.7 or higher.
".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.
To set up local development environment to debug, run, and test your IoT Edge solution, you need Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool. Install Python (2.7/3.6) and Pip. Then install iotedgehubdev by running below command in your terminal. Make sure your Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool version is greater than 0.3.0.
