Azure IoT Edge Tools for Visual Studio Documentation

Announcement

The Azure IoT Visual Studio extension is in a maintenance mode. Please see this announcement for more details. We recommend using the command line steps to develop edge modules over VS extensions.

Overview

Azure IoT Edge Tools makes it easy to code, build, deploy, and debug your IoT Edge solutions in Visual Studio 2019 and in Visual Studio 2022

• Download and install Azure IoT Edge Tools for VS 2019 or Azure IoT Edge Tools for VS 2022.
• Use Visual Studio 2019/2022 to develop and debug C# modules for Azure IoT Edge.
• Easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge C modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools.
• Troubleshoot.
• If there's any problem during using this tool, please create an issue.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Legal Notices

Microsoft and any contributors grant you a license to the Microsoft documentation and other content in this repository under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, see the LICENSE file, and grant you a license to any code in the repository under the MIT License, see the LICENSE-CODE file.

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Support

The team monitors the issue section on regular basis and will try to assist with troubleshooting or questions related IoT Edge tools on a best effort basis.

A few tips before opening an issue. Try to generalize the problem as much as possible. Examples include

• Removing 3rd party components
• Reproduce the issue with provided deployment manifest used
• Specify whether issue is reproducible on physical device or simulated device or both Also, Consider consulting on the docker docs channel for general docker questions.