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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
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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

Advantages of Visualforce


The following are the advantages of Visualforce for a developer:

  • Model-View-Controller development style: Visualforce adheres to the MVC pattern by providing the view of the application in the Force.com platform. A view is defined by user interfaces and Visualforce markup. The Visualforce controller, which can be associated with Visualforce markup, takes care of the business logic. Therefore, the designer and the developer can work separately. While the designer focuses on the user interface, the developer focuses on business logic.

  • User-friendly development: A developer (with an administrator profile) user can have a Visualforce editor pane at the bottom of every Visualforce page. This editor pane is controlled by the Development Mode option of the user record. This feature allows us to edit and see the resulting page at the same time and in the same window. This Visualforce editor has the code-saving features of autocompilation and syntax highlighting.

  • A broad set...

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