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Learning Force.com Application Development

By : Madusanka

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Learning Force.com Application Development

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By: Madusanka

Overview of this book

If you are a developer who wants to learn how to develop and deploy applications from the Salesforce.com platform, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Salesforce is necessary.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Force.com

1. Getting Started with Force.com

Introduction to the Force.com platform

Designing and developing applications on the Force.com platform

Identifying building blocks of the Force.com platform

The sample application

Summary

2. Building the Data Model

2. Building the Data Model

Creating objects

Creating custom fields

Summary

3. Building the User Interface

3. Building the User Interface

Creating a Force.com custom application

Creating custom tabs

Customizing page layouts

An overview of Visualforce

Summary

4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data

4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data

Design considerations

An overview of Force.com licenses

The security framework of the Force.com platform

Summary

5. Implementing Business Processes

5. Implementing Business Processes

Preserving data quality with validation rules

Automating the business process using workflows

Automating the business process using approval processes

Summary

6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform

6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform

Data management operations

Force.com record IDs

Data management tools

Summary

7. Custom Coding with Apex

7. Custom Coding with Apex

Introducing Apex

Working with Apex

Writing Apex code – object-oriented programming in Apex

Triggers

Force.com platform query languages

Data manipulation on the Force.com platform

Summary

8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce

8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce

Introducing Visualforce

The concepts of Visualforce

The order of execution of a Visualforce page

Visualforce custom components

Advantages of Visualforce

Summary

9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform

9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform

Reports

Custom report types

Dashboards

Reporting snapshot

Summary

10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform

10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform

Handling inbound e-mails

Sending e-mails

Visualforce e-mail templates

Summary

11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites

11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites

Force.com sites

Creating and customizing your first Force.com site

Best practices on Force.com sites

Summary

12. Deploying the Force.com Application

12. Deploying the Force.com Application

Application development methodology and architecture

Migrating configuration changes

Sandboxes

Packages

Simple deployment with the Force.com IDE

Distributing Force.com applications onto AppExchange

Summary

A. Force.com Tools

A. Force.com Tools

Development tools

Data tools

Cloud integration tools

Language integration libraries

Salesforce platform mobile services

Summary

Index

Index

Working with Apex

Before you start coding with Apex, you need to learn a few basic things.

Apex basics

Apex has come up with a syntactical framework. Similar to Java, Apex is strongly typed and is an object-based language. If you have some experience with Java, it will be easy to understand Apex. The following table explains the similarities and differences between Apex and Java.

Similarities	Differences
Both languages have classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and other common object oriented programming features	Apex runs in a multitenant environment and is very controlled in its invocations and governor limits
Both languages have extremely similar syntax and notations	Apex is case sensitive
Both languages are compiled, strongly-typed, and transactional	Apex is on-demand and is compiled and executed in the cloud
	Apex is not a general purpose programming language, but is instead a proprietary language used for specific business logic functions
	Apex requires unit testing for deployment...

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