Get started with Azure Sphere
Azure Sphere development kits provide everything you need to start prototyping and developing Azure Sphere applications. Order yours today and start taking advantage of the rich development experience in Visual Studio.
Prerequisites:
- An Azure Sphere development kit
- A Windows PC or a Linux machine
For application development on Windows, use one of the following:
- Visual Studio Enterprise, Professional, or Community
- Visual Studio Code
- Command line with CMake
For application development on Linux, use one of the following:
- Visual Studio Code
- Command line with CMake
Once you have a dev kit
Support
Comprehensive support options are available to meet your needs, whether you're getting started or are already deploying Azure Sphere.
- Start here to set up your device: Azure Sphere documentation.
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Community support: Engage with Microsoft engineers and Azure Sphere community experts.
- For product-related questions: Microsoft Q&A.
- For development questions: StackOverflow.
- Feedback: Submit product feedback or new feature requests.
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Azure Sphere assisted support: One-on-one technical support for Azure Sphere is available for customers who have an Azure subscription associated with an Azure support plan.
- If you already have an Azure subscription with Azure support plan, sign in to submit a support request.
- See Azure subscription options.
- Select an Azure support plan.
- Service notifications: Operational notifications and updates from the Azure Sphere Engineering team. View notifications.
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