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Learning Apex Programming

Learning Apex Programming

By : Matthew Kaufman, Michael Wicherski
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Learning Apex Programming

Learning Apex Programming

2.8 (6)
By: Matthew Kaufman, Michael Wicherski
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer who has some object-oriented programming experience, Learning Apex Programming is the perfect book for you. This book is most appropriate for developers who wish to gain an understanding of the Force.com platform and how to use Apex to create business applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons
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1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons
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Before you start
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A gift to our readers
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Safety first
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The Force.com IDE
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Getting comfortable with Eclipse
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Linking Eclipse to the Salesforce1 Platform
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Under the hood
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Data and metadata
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Writing code
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Summary
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2. Apex Limits
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2. Apex Limits
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Exceptions prove the rule
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Embracing an exception
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An exception to end all exceptions
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Obeying the speed limit
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More limits
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Edition limits
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API limits
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E-mail limits
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Time and relative limits in space
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You want me to process how many records?
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How many times and how many things
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Techniques to avoid query limits
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These aren't the queries you're looking for
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Visualforce limits
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Summary
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3. More and Later
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3. More and Later
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Chain reactions
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Where we're going, we don't need roads
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I fought the law and won
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Please sir, I want some more
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Combining forces
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Bigger, better, and batchier
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Dyna batch
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Building skynet
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Master control
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4. Triggers and Classes
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4. Triggers and Classes
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A brief history of triggers
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Trigger happy
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Pulling the trigger
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Inside the mind of a trigger
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Class is in session
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Staying classy
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Put your hands together
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Behind the scenes
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The Pablo Picasso of Apex
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5. Visualforce Development with Apex
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5. Visualforce Development with Apex
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s-con, what?
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Your own personal Force.com
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Tag, you're it!
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Taking control
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Extending control
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More internal goodies
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Static cling
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Dynamic pages
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Visualforce components
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Your component library
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Controlling components
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6. Exposing Force.com to the World
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6. Exposing Force.com to the World
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Three ways to skin a cat
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JavaScript buttons jubilee
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For your consideration
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My turn!
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7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar
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7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar
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Gimme an O!
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Googol
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Forget me not
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I'm late, very, very late!
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O, Auth me mighty Google!
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8. Creating a Property Management Application
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8. Creating a Property Management Application
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Why
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What
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Who
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How
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When and Where
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A custom model
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Paying your dues
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Mine, all mine
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Ain't no mountain
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Upgrade to the app status
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9. Test Coverage
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9. Test Coverage
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@isTest
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Always on my mind
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Get tested
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Fruits of our labour
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The ultimate goal
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Index
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Index

Dynamic pages

Minds tend to change, so business requirements do too. If you hardcode text in your pages, it's likely that you'll be asked to revise that text at some point in the future. While this is great for your job security, it's not that great for your sanity. We'd much rather spend our time working on solving complex problems than tweaking text over and over. We hope you feel the same way, so we're now going to cover the ways in which you can make your pages more dynamic and even allow your business users or system administrators to modify how their pages are rendered.

Creating a custom label

The simplest way to introduce dynamic text into your Visualforce pages is through the use of labels. Labels are snippets of text that are managed from inside the setup console. This allows your system administrators to control the verbiage of text that is changed often without the need to modify your actual markup. The platform even includes a translation workbench, so your labels can be translated...

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