It is sometimes amazing to note that we miss such obvious things in Salesforce. For example, before today if you asked me send a mass email to all Salesforce users informing them about something (e.g. an upcoming maintenance window or a new Salesforce feature), my first thought would have been to create a report of all actives users in Salesforce with their email addresses, download the report and then send an email using my email client.More
Here is a great article on 15 commandments to Apex best practices, which I think every developer should create as a checklist when writing codes. Do read this as this can transform you from being just a developer to a good developer.
and here is a quick recap of what’s mentioned in the articleMore
(IMPORTANT: This is an old blog post that shows how to execute java program from Eclipse IDE. If you would rather prefer to execute java program from VS Code, plesae navigate to this blog post instead)
How do you connect to Salesforce from an external application, say, for example Java? If you Google for the information, you will quickly learn that Salesforce provides different methods and different APIs. But what you will probably not find is a step-by-step guide teaching you exactly how to do it. In this blog post, I have stitched together a complete step-by-step instructions with screenshots on how to download, install, configure and use Salesforce REST API to connect from a java program and execute some basic transactions (query, insert, update, delete records). In less than 45 minutes, you will have a fully functional java program that will connect to Salesforce and execute transactions in Salesforce.More
How do you connect to Salesforce from an external application, say, for example, Java? If you Google for the information, you will quickly learn that Salesforce provides different methods and different APIs. But what you will probably not find is a step-by-step guide teaching you exactly how to do it. In this blog post, I have stitched together a complete step-by-step instructions with screenshots on how to download, install, configure and use Salesforce’s SOAP API to connect from a java program and execute some basic transactions (query, insert, update, delete records). In less than 60 minutes, you will have a fully functional java program that will connect to Salesforce and execute transactions in Salesforce.More
(06-Mar-2019: Salesforce has discontinued any future development on Force.com IDE for Eclipse. For writing codes on Salesforce, you should now switch to using Microsoft Visual Studio with Salesforce Extensions Pack. And I have you covered there also. Please click here to get a step-by-step guide on how to install and get started with MS VS Code with Salesforce Extensions Pack)
Here is the step-by-step instructions with screenshots on how to download, install and configure Force.com IDE on Eclipse platform, connect to a Salesforce Org and explore. In less than 30 minutes, you will have the IDE fully setup and connected to a Salesforce Org.More