Extending a Salesforce application

In this section, we'll extend a Salesforce application's functionality using the VB. In order to extend a Salesforce application, a new web application with the name salesforceext_chapter9 is created under the VBCSBook application. While creating this application, select Tabbed as the navigation style and add two navigation items with the names Opportunity and Account as per the following screenshot:

Figure 9.1 – A new web application to extend Salesforce

The salesforceext_chapter9 application will be created with two flows with the names Opportunity and Account. We'll manage (list and create) Salesforce opportunities under the Opportunity flow and accounts under the Account flow.

Pre-requisites for extending the Salesforce app

In order to extend the Salesforce application, the following are required:

• The Salesforce developer instance. You can use https://developer.salesforce.com/signup...