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Developer experience with Azure Sphere

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OlivierBloch
Former Employee
Dec 12, 2019
Microsoft Azure Sphere is a secured, high-level application platform for internet-connected devices. And it is going GA in February 2020! Azure Sphere is designed around around the 7 principles of ...
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I am Principal Program Manager at Microsoft in the Azure Light Edge team, working on developer experience and advocating for Internet of Things developers. I have worked in the IoT space for as long as I remember, first as an embedded developer and consultant, then as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft France then Microsoft Corp. I also spent 3 years in Microsoft Open Technologies, engaging with open source communities on topics going from Web and JavaScript to gaming and IoT
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Ghassan Hariz
Copper Contributor
Dec 29, 2019

Lessons learned using the Azure Sphere Starter Kit from Avnet:

 

  • Update to the latest OS version ASAP. I faced some issues where the board could not connect to the service before I upgraded to OS version 19.10
  • I did face an issue where https://www.element14.com/community/groups/azuresphere/blog/2019/04/24/avnets-azure-sphere-starter-kit-out-of-box-demo-part-1-of-3#comment-245205. However, after contacting Avnet through the element14 community, they promptly released a fix on Github.
  • Some of the Azure Sphere videos talk about configuring the IoT Hub settings by selecting the project in Visual Studio, selecting Overview and then choosing Connected Services, then clicking on IoT Hub. That never worked. After researching the issue, I found out that this method has been deprecated. In the new OS versions, the IoT Hub settings are all done in the app_manifest.json file. 
  • Detailed steps for connecting the Avnet Starter Kit to Azure IoT Hub can be found on my blog https://ghassanhariz7.azurewebsites.net/index.php/2019/12/19/microsoft-azure-sphere-connect-your-azure-sphere-device-to-azure-iot-hub-using-visual-studio-2019/ and an overview of Azure Sphere can be found on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-azure-sphere-make-sure-your-connected-devices-hariz.