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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

Simple deployment with the Force.com IDE


There are two interfaces for the Force.com application development, which involves metadata: Setup menu and Force.com IDE. Declarative configurations are easy to develop through the setup menu and Apex code, Visualforce pages are easy to develop through the Force.com IDE. All the previous deployment methods are executed through the setup menu. If you want to deploy the configurations from one organization to another, regardless of the related organizations, such as production and sandbox, you can use the Force.com IDE. The Force.com IDE uses the metadata API to perform its functionalities. When you want to deploy Apex from a local project in the Force.com IDE to a Salesforce organization, use the Deploy to Server wizard.

Before performing the deployment, you need to prepare the development environment through the Force.com IDE. To create a Force.com project in the Force.com IDE, use the following steps:

  1. Open the Force.com IDE.

  2. Go to File | New | Force...

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