In the previous chapter, we saw how Salesforce deployment is done in traditional ways. We learned about change set deployment, inbound and outbound changes in Salesforce, how to use Eclipse to deploy code to a sandbox, and Ant scripts as well. Also, we compared deployment methods in Salesforce with their advantages and disadvantages and learned how to choose the appropriate method of deployment according to our use case.
In this chapter, we will study the Force.com Migration Tool in detail. We will discover how to install and set up the Force.com Migration Tool. Also, we will see how to use the migration tool to retrieve metadata components from a Salesforce sandbox and deploy them in another sandbox. Also, we will explain some important operations such as deploy code and undeploy code. We will discuss about configuration files...
