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Apex and Visualforce

You can extend your Force.com applications beyond the boundaries of the Application Framework with Apex and Visualforce. Apex is the world's first on-demand programming language. You can use Apex to extend the functionality of your applications with extensive logic implemented through triggers. You can create Apex classes for optimal standardization and code reuse. Visualforce gives you the ability to easily reshape the presentation of your Force.com applications, and that's only the beginning. You can use Visualforce pages to combine data from multiple Force.com objects, to blend data from web services into your applications, or to implement a robust Web 2.0-style interface for users.

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General

Platform State Of The Union: Core presentation on the Force.com platform from Dreamforce '07.

Whitepaper: The Force.com Platform: The Force.com platform brings all the advantages of the on-demand environment to your own custom applications. Get an introduction to the basics of the platform, including its architecture and main components.

Powering 100 Million Transactions Per Day - Behind the Scenes at Salesforce.com: How do we do it? An in-depth look at the infrastructure behind the world's most popular on-demand platform from Dreamforce '07.

Meet the Developers: Roundtable session with the creators of the Force.com platform from Dreamforce '07.

View Apex Documentation: Apex user guide and documentation

View Visualforce Documentation: Visualforce user guide and documentation

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Success Stories

What will you build ?

Elaine's Blackberry app on Visualforce, fresh from the Developer Lounge
Jason's Employee Directory Visualforce App, you saw this at Dreamforce, now read about it and see it in action.
CODA Builds on Force.com: For nearly three decades, CODA has built a formidable reputation on its financial accounting software. Now the company is leveraging the Force.com platform to build a new on-demand application suite called CODA 2go.

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Visualforce

Visualforce pages deliver the ability to create custom pages for your Force.com applications. Visualforce pages includes a set of tags to describe a variety of rich components into your page design. These components bring the full power of the Force.com meta-data driven platform to your pages, while giving you complete freedom to design pages to suit your specific user interface requirements. Visualforce pages run with the help of controllers, which provide the functional links between the page interface and the underlying data. You can use standard controllers which represent any Force.com data object, or create your own custom controllers for more flexible data access to an expanded range of data sources.
Read more on Visualforce.

Visualforce: Get the developer's introduction to Visualforce, and learn how to get started with this new technology.

Visualforce Technical Overview: This screencast presentation by Adam Gross explains Visualforce, and walks you through the basics of how you can use it to build powerful user experiences into your on-demand apps.

Getting Started with Visualforce: Presentation from Dreamforce '07.

Visualforce Developer's Guide: The official developer documentation provides an introduction and a great "quick start" tutorial.

Summer '08 -- Download PDF || View Online

Visualforce Deep Dive: Presentation from Dreamforce '07.

Using Browser Technologies in Visualforce: Part 1 of 2 - Gives an overview of how standard browser technologies, including AJAX and Flex relate to Visualforce pages.

Introducing Visualforce - Create Any User Interface as a Service: Get in-depth coverage provided by top Salesforce technical experts. Plus, learn how you can get into the Visualforce Developer Preview.

Force.com Tutorial: An Introduction to Visualforce: This article provides a series of tutorials that contain enough material for you to get started building your own applications utilizing Visualforce.

Desktop Demo & Sample Code using Visualforce : Visualforce Desktop is a sample application which shows the UI flexibility of Force.com platform.

Force.com for ASP.NET Developers: This article provides a dive deep into using the Force.com Platform Web Services to access your Salesforce.com data from within a Visualforce page or from within a Microsoft ASP.NET Web form.

Whitepaper: Visualforce: Visualforce is a key component of Force.com, salesforce.com’s platform as a service (PaaS). Learn how companies and their developers can create any kind of user experience and deliver it entirely on demand, without software.

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Developer Stories

What will you build ?

Add Tabs to the Accounts screen in 30 seconds (or less). Want to experience the power of Visualforce in as little time as possible? Follow these step-by-step instructions to quickly create your own Visualforce Accounts screen with tabbed related lists.
Elaine's Blackberry app on Visualforce, fresh from the Developer Lounge
Jason's Employee Directory Visualforce App, you saw this at Dreamforce, now read about it and see it in action.

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Other Visualforce Code and Project Examples

Creating custom tab for a single Record Type An example using Visualforce page to replicate a home tab for a single account record type

Creating a simple blog application An example of using an Apex page to build a simple Blog app, uses YUI rich text widget

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Apex

Apex is the world's first on-demand development language. Apex enables you extend the functionality of your Force.com applications with a robust procedural language. You can use this language to create triggers, which fire when any user performs certain data operations. Apex can also be used to create classes, which can be called from other classes and triggers, enabling productive code reuse and standardization. You can expose any Apex class as a Web service by simply adding a few keywords to the class.

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