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Developers and Admins will soon be able to gain official certification on the Force.com platform, with the announcement of a global rollout of formal certification. Learn More

Dan Belwood of Sofia Works describes his company's approach to cloud computing and its leveraging of Apex and Visualforce to build custom applications. Learn More

A new version of the Force.com IDE is now available, featuring page layouts, validation rules, workflows and more. Learn More

Scott Hemmeter looks at Force.com and sees an ISV business in the making. Read about Scott and his successful Arrowpointe Maps application. Learn More

This toolkit exposes the Google Data APIs directly within Apex, making it easier to access them natively from your Force.com apps. Click through to download the toolkit and access the tutorials. Learn More

Workbench is a community-contributed, web-based application tool that administrators and developers can use to manage salesforce.com organizations. It now includes SOSL Search, Smart Lookups and Performance Enhancements. Download Now!

Discover how Mike Simonds, a developer.force.com community member, learned how to use PHP and the Force.com Web Services API to write a series of useful tools and tutorials. Learn More

Our global roadshow rolls on, with three cities in June: Santa Clara, Dublin and Tokyo. Whether you're a developer, IT pro, business analyst, or entrepreneur, come and meet the community and Force.com experts, and benefit from tutorials, technical sessions, hands-on labs and demos. All for free. Reserve your spot today!

With the imminent release of Visualforce, your days of relying on S-Controls should be numbered. Register for this live webinar and learn why replacing them with Visualforce will reward you with speed, stability, and much more Register Now!

CODA just launched CODA 2go, an on-demand financial system built entirely on the Force.com platform. Learn how they developed their custom application in this success story. Learn More

The five-person MyLoanBiz company, which calls on a small pool of developers on an as-needed basis, runs a tight shop that maximizes the strengths of each employee. Read their story on how the Force.com platform has given the company a blueprint for building a business - complete with technology, marketing, and new releases. Learn More

Enhancing the Print Anything project, Astitch.net recently published a free extension called the Astitch Document Generator. Find out how this application allows direct PDF generation by exposing the power of XSL and the FOP (Formatting Objects Processing) standard to any data in Salesforce. Download Now!

Dreamforce Europe opened today with the announcement that Visualforce and Visualforce Components will be made available with the Summer '08 release, out early June. Get started by following our tutorials, demos, code samples and more. Learn More

This S-Control example uses AJAX and JavaScript to add functionality to a standard page. Download the sample code and learn how to supplement your pages with additional information while maintaining a familiar user interface. Download Now!

Combining the power of both the Apex Data Loader with the Force.com Explorer, the Workbench can insert, upsert, update, export, delete, undelete, and purge data as well as describe any object in your salesforce.com organization. The Web app, along with as the source code are now available for you to download. Download Now

Get started building powerful Force.com apps that integrate innovative Google technologies. Learn More

Read how the Force.com platform enabled Bob Morrell, CEO of Riskonnect, to avoid having to build and maintain his own infrastructure while delivering a revolutionary risk management solution in the process. Learn More

Many of you are probably using Apex code to implement sophisticated logic, such as round-robin assignment, custom quote generation, etc...Did you know that you can now use Apex code to dynamically route approval requests to different users within your organization? With this sample code solution, learn how you can accomplish this. Download Now!

The road to a dream job does not always run straight. Read about how Steve Andersen, who joined the tech-savvy Seattle nonprofit ONE/Northwest three years ago and has since helped build Force.com applications for some 20 Pacific Northwest environmental groups. Learn More

In this article series, read how you can use Visualforce pages and controllers to create dependent picklists based on related objects, as well as creating flexible user interfaces based on these picklists. Learn More

Register now, as this global roadshow rolls on to four new cities in April! Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and Boston are the next stops on our 20-city tour. Whether you're a developer, IT pro, business analyst, or entrepreneur, this is the ideal opportunity to experience Force.com live and in person. Come and meet the community and the top Force.com experts and benefit from tutorials, technical sessions, hands-on labs, and demos. Reserve your spot today!

Would you like to have a way to allow your customers and prospects to unsubscribe email messages sent out by marketing companies? Learn from this sample code how you can write Force.com Email Services to process unsubscribe requests from the email recipients. Download Now!

Looking for an easy way to make Web service API method calls? The new version of the PHP Toolkit is for you. And if you’re already a toolkit user, you’ll be delighted to know that it’s been updated for the latest API, including support for the new metadata API. Download Now!

Learn how you can use Force.com Email Services to send emails to Force.com and process them with Apex code to create and update data from inbound emails. This sample code shows you how an email can be used to create new tasks for a contact record with a matching email address. Learn More

Learn how you can use Force.com Email Services to send emails to Force.com and process them with Apex code to create and update data from inbound emails. This sample code shows you how an email can be used to create new tasks for a contact record with a matching email address. Learn More

Discover the new set of tools and services that bring developer productivity and collaboration to the Force.com platform-as-a-service model. Development as a Service includes the new Metadata API, Force.com IDE and more. Learn More

Read about customers and developers that are finding fast, cost-effective success building their latest business apps on the force.com platform. Learn More

Kick off the New Year with Tour de Force San Francisco! Join us for this powerful free event and the chance to learn new skills, get expert guidance, and hear inside information on the latest Force.com development technologies. Register Now!

Force.com platform, the world’s leading on-demand development and deployment environment. 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. Learn More

Learn how you can use Force.com Web Services to access Salesforce.com data from within a Visualforce page and/or a Microsoft ASP.NET Web form. This article will take you through the process of creating custom Force.com logic, then demonstrate how to call that logic from within a Force.com application or from a custom application hosted outside Salesforce.com. Go ahead and mash it up! Learn More

The Force.com Email Services preview is now available in your Developer Edition Org., and should be generally available in the next major release. This feature allows you to create email addresses which can process Apex code as seen in this sample code. Check it out!

Michael Farrington has become a force to be reckoned with, thanks to Force.com. Read how Farrington, a Salesforce Administrator on the Sales Technology Team at Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility unit, taught himself how to build Force.com apps, then created a Force.com solution to vastly streamlined a key process for his company. Learn More

We’re eager to hear about the cool new apps you are building with Visualforce and force.com! Submit a qualified Visualforce story and we’ll send you a one of our new Force.com t-shirts (while supplies last). Submit Today

Integrating Force.com applications with your existing environment sometimes requires moving data in and out of the Force.com database. This screencast, part of the Enterprise Integration Series, focuses on the Force.com Data Loader, covering functionality, tips for effective use, and a demo. Watch Now

We're excited to introduce Force.com Ideas, a set of IdeaExchange categories for the Force.com community. Get active in shaping the platform by posting, commenting, and voting on Force.com ideas. Now the community has a unified way to voice its needs, and we are listening! Check it out today!

Questions about using various browsers technologies and how they fit into the Visualforce strategy? Read this four-part series and get answers on how Visualforce, Flex, and Ajax all work together on the Force.com platform. Learn More

Jason Ouellette of Appirio, is one of the 3000 Visualforce Developer Preview program participant taking advantage of the new technology. Read about his experience building a demo Employee Directory application. Learn More

Want to build powerful applications without programming, to support any process or department in your company? Then join us for a live webinar on how to use Force.com to create custom apps that take advantage of the platform's latest features, including workflow, rollup summary fields, and formulas. Register Now

Want to create PDF of your Force.com data? Follow this step-by-step guide and learn how to create Adobe PDF files using Print Anything and Google Docs. Learn More

Force.com Tutorial: An Introduction to Visualforce Get step-by-step guidance on building your first Visualforce page from this very practical, hands-on tutorial. It covers everything from getting access to the Visualforce Dev Preview to seeing your first Visualforce page live. Learn More

Enable your Developer Edition org today and start building on-demand apps that utilize the complete force.com "platform as a service" stack. Get Visualforce Now

Welcome to the Winter '08 Preview for Developers. Get the latest information on what's new and hot for developers in the Winter '08 release, including some key coders-only technologies you can get your hands on through this Developer Preview. Learn More

Missed Dreamforce ‘07? Everyone from entrepreneurs to admins to hard-core developers can now watch over 30 Developers@Dreamforce sessions across four tracks. These practical presentations and demos from Force.com technical experts give you essential fundamentals, insider tips and tricks, and development best practices on the latest Force.com technologies. Watch Now

You truly can build almost anything on the Force.com platform! This short sample walks you through the creation of a simple blogging app, showing several interesting uses of Visualforce, including a rich text widget from Yahoo, “on load” events in the page, custom controller, “on click” and “action complete” handlers.
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DFC member and Dreamforce ‘07 attendee, Elaine, wasted no time getting started with the Visualforce Developer Preview. Read about the Visualforce tips and tricks she discovered while hanging out in the Developer Lounge and building a custom user experience for her BlackBerry 8800. Learn More

Watch Dave Linthicum's latest screencast for free and to find out why enterprise architecture is evolving from complex, monolithic infrastructures to something far more efficient and dynamic: Platform-as-a-Service.
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Force.com’s Visualforce provides a complete framework for building and deploying any kind of user experience, and enabling any kind of interface design and interaction to be built and delivered entirely on demand. Explore this game-changing new technology. Learn More

How can your users stay productive with your Salesforce web app while on a plane? You now use Google Gears and Google Web Toolkit to make any on-demand application work off line as well. Read all about it in this article and download the sample code to get started. Learn More

Learn how to use the new Flex Toolkit to create a simple Flex application and embed this within your Salesforce application. You can also watch a screencast that demonstrates the process. Learn More

Learn how to use the Apex API 10.0 with the Partner WSDL with Java. This sample is a great place to start since it contains an Ant build script, necessary library, and code samples that exercise all the available API method calls. Download Now

Download the new version of Force.com IDE. Find out why this is an ideal tool for writing Apex Code and s-controls as well as publishing finished Apex code into other Salesforce instances. Learn More

Join hundreds of successful companies who have built their businesses on the Force.com platform. Take advantage of a complete set of startup tools, resources and services to build your business today! Get It Now

Read about the amazing success Indian developers are finding on the Force.com Platform and AppExchange. These partners have recognized the opportunity of on-demand, and are quickly capitalizing on it to grow their businesses. Learn More

Developers@Dreamforce '07 will feature some of the biggest Salesforce.com technology announcements ever. Watch this screencast to get a sneak preview demonstrations of exciting new on-demand technologies such as Apex Code(GA), Metadata API (preview), and more. Also, learn how you can receive early access in order to start working with them right away. Watch Now

Learn how to configure the Force.com environment for Single Sign-On, as described in the How to Implementing Single Sign On with Force.com guide. In addition, implement client-based Single Sign-On by finding out how token-based SSO can be accomplished with Salesforce desktop clients such as Outlook Edition, Lotus Notes Edition, and Office Edition. Learn More

Find the latest information on what's new and hot for developers in the Summer '07. Take a preview of Apex Code, Force.com SOA, Metadata API, and more! Learn More

Using this tutorial/sample code, learn how to build a mashup on the Force.com platform using data from a third party web service. As an example, this web service takes in two country names and returns the exchange rate for those two countries. Learn More

The Force.com Platform makes the concepts of SOA real, and this multipart series will show you how. In this first installment, get an overview and learn about system landscapes, platform integration capabilities, and how you can successfully integrate with Force.com. Watch Now!

Were you not able to attend the webinar? You can now watch the screencast and hear from top technical experts from both Salesforce.com and Adobe, and learn how quick and easy it is to create rich applications on the Force.com platform with the Flex Toolkit for Force.com. Learn More

Learn how to use the Apex Data Loader to perform bulk operations on your Force.com org -- insert, update, upsert and delete data, as well as export data from Force.com objects. Learn More

There's nothing like a Salesforce event, but this page is the next best thing. Watch the keynotes, review the sessions, and find out what you missed. Learn More

Dreamforce '07 will have more for developers than ever! Five tracks on everything from Apex Code, app development basics, and advanced programming, to building your on-demand business. Plus, powerful labs, special events, parties, and more. Register today!

You can combine the power of the Force.com platform with Google Apps to create secure enterprise mash-ups! Read this to see how to use Force.com SOA and Google Data APIs to present an integrated view of calendar information. Learn More

Spur your imagination on what you can do with Flex/Apollo and the Flex Toolkit for Force.com. This sample code is a desktop widget for displaying tasks and events from your Force.com account on your desktop. Learn More

Watch this 10 min screencast demo and learn how this powerful new capability of the Apex programming language will enable on-demand developers to leverage Web services from anywhere. Learn More

New Technology Announced at the Salesforce Developer Conference Salesforce EVP Parker Harris recently announced Force.com SOA, a powerful new capability of the Apex programming language that enables developers to leverage Web services from anywhere and build them into their on-demand applications. Force.com SOA makes it possible to mashup salesforce.com's multi-tenant on-demand service with enterprise workflow and business processes to enable new kinds of enterprise applications on demand. Learn More

Read this new second edition of the "Creating On-Demand Applications" book and start building on-demand applications. Newly revised and expanded, it provides practical, step-by-step coverage of the Force.com platform and how you can use it to build your own business solutions in hours. Learn More

Build new functionality with the Spring '07 Email API. This code example allows you to send emails through the new Email API. You can send both Mass and Single Emails, CC and BCC email addresses, include your email signature as well as send text or HTML email. Learn More

Read this tutorial by Mike Simonds, an active member of the Force.com community. The tutorial focuses on using Oracle as a local database and pushing data to Force.com.com. Learn how performing updates/inserts to Force.com via the upsert command gives an organization much more flexibility to keep data refreshed from an internal data system and the organizations sforce instance. Learn More

Read this simple, How-To Guide for the "not-so-advanced" S-Control developer who wants to apply the Force.com branding to their S-Controls in 6 easy steps! Learn More

Download Dave Linthicum's latest whitepaper for free and discover the benefits of using an on-demand model for enterprise architecture. Learn More

Read the developer success story on Glenn Wilson of Toronto's CRMfusion. Apex Code is still in preview, Glenn has already put it to work—creating a prototype application that's well on its way to becoming a product and ready to ship as soon as Apex Code is released. Learn More

Learn how to use the new Flex Toolkit to create a simple Flex application and embed this within your Force.com application. Learn More

The first in a two-part series, this article provides an intro to core mashup concepts, as well as covers techniques for creating and enabling enterprise mashups. Learn More

Watch the screencast and discover how the Force.com platform makes it easy to create sophisticated applications with complex business logic—and scale them to thousands of users—without servers or infrastructure. The session was presented by Adam Gross of salesforce.com, as well our partners Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Engizma Software from India. Learn More

Visit us at Web 2.0 Expo! We'll be speaking on the business web and demoing the latest Force.com platform technologies, including something entirely new for Apex developers. Learn More

Get tips on real-world implementation of key Force.com platform features and technologies by watching this demo of a new app built on Apex. Learn More

Watch this practical developer update presented by Dave Carroll, DFC Technical Evangelist and Andrew Waite, PM Apex Code. Log-in required. Learn More

Get updates on the Spring '07 release. Learn More

With the release of Spring '07, including the Apex API, read about the new features and bug fixes that improve the capabilities of applications that leverage the Force.com platform. Learn More

Watch this technical session from the recent Apex Day event for an overview of core platform features and technologies. Learn More

Find out how DFC members can get access to the Apex Code Developer Preview through their Developer Edition accounts. Learn More

DFC Members who missed the event can log in and watch the videos of the presentations and demos. Not a member? It's easy and free to join. Learn More

This whitepaper provides a conceptual overview of Apex Code and its capabilities, as well as the opportunities it opens for developers. Learn More

AJAX plus Adobe Flex makes for a rich visual interface, and this article tells the story of a mashup that takes advantage of those technologies to chart the opportunity stages at an account. Learn More

Comprehensive review of new features, changes and bug fixes in the Winter 07 (8.0) release of the Apex API. Learn More