IoT Developer

Tooling and Experience

May 2017 - IoT Developer

Debug your Arduino code with Visual Studio Code

May 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 05/27/17
Xin Shi
Debugging Arduino application is a challenging task as the debugging feature has not been officially supported in Arduino IDE. Many modern IDEs have debug support that developers are used to, using Breakpoints, Steps, Call Stack, Watch, Local/Global Variables, etc. Arduino developers often have to explore many alternative methods and tools...

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...