Here’s how to directly connect to the Event Hub that backs an IoT Hub. New Way As of 5/30/2017, you can now get the underlying Event Hub connection string by either the “Endpoints” blade or the “Opera
The Azure IoT Field Gateway SDK is a set of libraries that allow you to build a device that acts as a proxy between an individual IoT device and Azure IoT Hub. Individual IoT devices will connect to t
I rebuilt my dev machine recently and reinstalled the Service Fabric 2.1 SDKs from here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-get-started/ The rest of the devs on my
You have a couple different options to monitor your incoming and outgoing Azure IoT Hub traffic. Azure CLI IoT Extension See this ref for more info: https://aka.ms/iotcli https://docs.microsoft.com/e
Azure provides a set of services that allow you to visualize IoT device data in real-time. The data pipeline is: IoT Device –> Azure IoT Hub –> Azure Stream Analytics –> Power BI. Follow alon
Here’s a quick post on how to get setup with Azure IoT Hub with a UWP App. These steps and code taken from Olivier Bloch’s Build Talk: 1. Create a new Azure IoT Hub – Free Tier – in Azure Portal http:
I just flattened my machine and ran into this issue when running a Service Fabric hosted WebAPI project. This line of code: this.serverHandle = WebApp.Start(this.listeningAddress, appBuilder =>
Here’s what you do when you want to get a local copy of an Azure SQL Database. Export Azure Database 1. Select your database in the Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseRes
If you get the following error, then you need to install BOTH x86 and x64 versions of the DAC Framework. I have only verified that this works with SQL Express 2014. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dow
I built a stateless Azure Service Fabric service and later realized I would need a stateful service. Rather than try to comb through docs to see what the conversion looked like, I created a brand new
The Durable Task Framework (DTF) is a workflow execution framework that is based on async/await and backed by Azure Service Bus. I was recently in need of a long running workflow engine and wanted to
I just spent way too much time getting AppInsights working in an Azure WebJob. Here are a couple of tips: 1. Make sure you are using the right InstrumentationKey. Go here to find out how: https://azur
I had an On-Demand Azure WebJob and wanted to convert it to a scheduled WebJob. It took me a while to figure out how, so I thought I’d share to save you some time. You are probably already past this p
I spent spent way too much time with this one. Hope this post saves you from doing the same. Here’s the exception we are dealing with: can’t be invoked from Azure WebJobs SDK. Is it missing Azure Web
Power BI is Microsoft’s new data visualization platform. It allows you to easily pull data from datasources like Salesforce, GitHub and QuickBooks. As I was going through the product I noticed they di
I was just messing around with Node.js Tools for Visual Studio and Azure and ran into a few gotchas while getting everything setup. Hopefully this helps you get going. 1. Install the Node.js Tools for
UPDATE 3/5/2014. I reported this issue to the Azure team shortly after I posted this blog. The issue has now been resolved. Go Azure! If you click on the “try it now” button on the Preview Services pa
The is a post in a blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" Microsoft gives all Microsofties FREE MSDN, TechNet and Azure Subscriptions. With the free MSDN Subscription comes a f
It is very cool that Azure is offering MSDN subscribersup to $3,700 of Azure Benefits (Cloud, SQL, CDN, etc), but the error message you get when your MSDN Subscription has expired needs more detail. I
It took me more than 2 minutes (too long!) to figure out how to call the new Bing search API. The Bing API to Azure Marketplace migration doc is a great resource for learning how to call the new Azure