Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
Author Profile Icon Chamil Madusanka
Chamil Madusanka
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application A. Force.com Tools Index

Introducing Visualforce


In the Force.com platform, you can build powerful applications using only declarative methods. But there are situations where declarative methods aren't enough to build the application. In the Force.com platform, every standard object and custom object have their own standard user interface. We can customize the standard UI by creating multiple page layouts. But when we work on a sophisticated UI requirement with different UI styles and custom components, the standard UI will have its own limitations. This is where the Visualforce markup language comes into play.

We all know that HTML is a markup language. Similar to HTML, Visualforce is a framework that includes a tag-based markup language that allows us to build sophisticated, attractive, and dynamic custom user interfaces. Almost all the standard web technologies (such as CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and so on) can be used along with Visualforce. Therefore, we can build rich UIs for any app, including mobile...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime