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Learning Apex Programming

You're reading from   Learning Apex Programming Create business applications using Apex to extend and improve the usefulness of the Salesforce1 Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782173977
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Apex Limits 3. More and Later 4. Triggers and Classes 5. Visualforce Development with Apex 6. Exposing Force.com to the World 7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar 8. Creating a Property Management Application 9. Test Coverage Index

Your component library


Although we don't spend much time writing comments in our code in this book, it's definitely a best practice to do so. This is especially true for Visualforce components because they are designed for reusability. If you and your colleagues don't want to reinvent the wheel, then you need to provide descriptive information about your components. Fortunately, there's a built-in Description attribute in components just for this purpose. You can access this Description attribute on the metadata of the component. In case you don't remember from Chapter 1, Apex Assumptions and Comparisons, the metadata for a file is accessed in the IDE via the Metadata tab at the bottom of the editor, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once you've provided a useful description for all of your components, you and your fellow developers can browse through the list of components from inside the Force.com GUI, as follows:

  1. Click on the Setup link at the top of the Force.com GUI.

  2. Navigate to Developer...

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