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Azure IoT Edge for Visual Studio Code

Announcement

The Azure IoT Visual Studio Code 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 VSCode extensions.

Overview

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

• Create new IoT Edge solution
• Add new IoT Edge module to Edge solution
• Build and publish IoT Edge modules
• Debug IoT Edge modules locally and remotely
• IntelliSense and code snippets for the deployment manifest
• Manage IoT Edge devices and modules in IoT Hub (with Azure IoT Toolkit)
• Deploy IoT solutions to IoT Edge devices

What's New (v1.25.11)

• Update default Edge runtime version to 1.4 LTS

What's New (v1.25.10)

• Snap to the latest simulator version 0.14.18

What's New (v1.25.9)

• Snap to the latest simulator version 0.14.14

What's New (v1.25.8)

• Snap to the latest simulator version 0.14.12

What's New (v1.25.0)

• Generate Dev Container definition files with new Edge Solutions.
• Ability to add Dev Container definition files to existing Edge Solutions.

What's New (v1.22.0)

Changed

• Allow user to select deployment template when add module
• Adopt VS Code's 'asWebviewUri' API

Known Issues

• C module remote debug error
• Cannot run C and Python module in IoT Edge Simulator
• IoT Edge Simulator does not work on Windows Container
• ASA module may fail sending message
• "Entry not found in cache" error when importing ACR and ASA modules
• Node.js module template version is not applied when another version is installed globally
• Access is denied when debugging C# module on macOS

Prerequisites for Azure IoT Edge extension

You need to install prerequisites below to make Azure IoT Edge extension work:

• Docker
• Python and Pip
• iotedgehubdev

  pip install --upgrade iotedgehubdev
  

• It's also recommended to install Docker Support for Visual Studio Code to manage your IoT Edge Docker images, containers and registries.
• The current user must have permissions to manage Docker. By default this is not the case on Linux, check the FAQ section to avoid permission denied errors.

Prerequisites for specific language

To develop IoT Edge modules you also need to install following prerequisites for specific language:

C# module prerequisites

• .NET Core 2.1 SDK or higher. (.NET Core 3.0 SDK or higher is required for ARM64 (preview) support. Please read the instruction here for more details).
• C# for Visual Studio Code (powered by OmniSharp) extension
• Prerequisites for Azure IoT Edge extension

C# Functions on IoT Edge prerequisites

• .NET Core 2.1 SDK or higher
• C# for Visual Studio Code (powered by OmniSharp) extension
• Prerequisites for Azure IoT Edge extension

Python module prerequisites

• Python and Pip
• Git for cloning module template from GitHub
• Python extension for Visual Studio Code
• Prerequisites for Azure IoT Edge extension

Node.js module prerequisites

• Node.js and npm
• Yeoman
• Prerequisites for Azure IoT Edge extension

Java module prerequisites

• Java SE Development Kit, and set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to your JDK installation.
• Maven
• Java Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code.
• Prerequisites for Azure IoT Edge extension…