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Visualforce Development Cookbook
For developers who already know the basics of Visualforce, this book enables you to advance to the next level. With over 75 real-world examples accompanied by stacks of illustrations, it clarifies even the most complex concepts. Overview In Detail Visualforce, in conjunction with Apex, makes it easy to develop sophisticated, custom UIs for Force.com desktop and mobile apps without having to write thousands of lines of code and markup. The "Dynamic Binding" feature of Visualforce lets you develop generic Visualforce pages to display information related to the records without necessarily knowing which data fields to show. This is accomplished through a formula-like syntax, which makes it simple to manage even a complex hierarchy of records. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" provides solutions for a variety of challenges faced by Salesforce developers and demonstrates how easy it is to build rich, interactive pages using Visualforce. Whether you are looking to make a minor addition to the standard page functionality or override it completely, this book will provide you with the required help throughout. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" starts with explaining the simple utilities and builds up to advanced techniques for data visualization and reuse of functionality. This book contains recipes that cover various topics like creating multiple records from a single page, visualizing data as charts, using JavaScript to enhance client-side functionality, building a public website and making data available to a mobile device. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" provides lots of practical examples to enhance and extend the Salesforce user interface. What you will learn from this book Approach "Visualforce Development Cookbook" is written in such a way that even complex concepts are explained in an easy-to-understand manner. Following a Cookbook structure, the book covers some essential technical scenarios and includes over 75 recipes focusing on real-world development problems. This book is packed with illustrations and also contains lots of code samples for the better understanding of the reader. Who this book is written for "Visualforce Development Cookbook" is aimed at developers who have already grasped the basics of Visualforce. Awareness of the standard component library and the purpose of controllers is expected.
334 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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December 16, 2013
This book contains a number of recipes with step-by-step instructions and an explanation how the solution functions for the end-user. Many different topics are covered within Salesforce development and are not limited to pure Visualforce and Apex. The cookbook also happens to contain solutions with some Javascript and JQuery, providing recipes to expand functionality of your Visualforce page, especially for mobile applications.
Overall, the book is presented in a very clear format. It is easy to follow and understand the solutions you’re interested in looking into. Despite its easy-to-read format, it does provide quite a bit of interesting tidbits that may aid the intermediate developer, delving into some of the more subtle aspects of the platform.
It should be noted that this book is truly aimed at the intermediate developer, which would be someone who has experience coding on the Force.com platform, without necessarily being an expert. Experience in other aspects of web-development may also be helpful. This book does not waste time or space reviewing the basics, such as what a controller is and how to make calls to it in your page. Instead, it will take some of the fundamentals you already know and show you how to combine them to make nifty things for your users.
Recipes range in complexity from implementing a custom button for your page to utilizing JQuery within your page for a mobile device. The book comes with sample code, as well. I know I will be using these recipes on the job. :)
Overall, the book is presented in a very clear format. It is easy to follow and understand the solutions you’re interested in looking into. Despite its easy-to-read format, it does provide quite a bit of interesting tidbits that may aid the intermediate developer, delving into some of the more subtle aspects of the platform.
It should be noted that this book is truly aimed at the intermediate developer, which would be someone who has experience coding on the Force.com platform, without necessarily being an expert. Experience in other aspects of web-development may also be helpful. This book does not waste time or space reviewing the basics, such as what a controller is and how to make calls to it in your page. Instead, it will take some of the fundamentals you already know and show you how to combine them to make nifty things for your users.
Recipes range in complexity from implementing a custom button for your page to utilizing JQuery within your page for a mobile device. The book comes with sample code, as well. I know I will be using these recipes on the job. :)
August 30, 2016
Okay, first things first: this is not a book for beginners. It's packed full of nice little recipes and examples of how to solve a number of commonly-encountered requirements using VisualForce, and each of these are fairly easily adaptable to fit your own requirements and standard/custom objects, but you're still going to need to know how to set up test classes and so on if you ever plan to deploy your code.
This isn't a criticism by any means; it's a cookbook, after all, and it performs this rôle very well. I'm still discovering its charms, dipping in and trying some ideas when I find something intriguing, and as such it's proving a lot of fun to read. My one criticism (there has to be one, right?) is that the code downloads could benefit from more comments to explain to the inexperienced reader why and/or how certain things are being done. For someone just learning Apex and VisualForce, some of the techniques in use can be a little opaque.
On the whole, it's well worth a look.
This isn't a criticism by any means; it's a cookbook, after all, and it performs this rôle very well. I'm still discovering its charms, dipping in and trying some ideas when I find something intriguing, and as such it's proving a lot of fun to read. My one criticism (there has to be one, right?) is that the code downloads could benefit from more comments to explain to the inexperienced reader why and/or how certain things are being done. For someone just learning Apex and VisualForce, some of the techniques in use can be a little opaque.
On the whole, it's well worth a look.
November 26, 2013
I have started to work on Force.com platform on April, 2011. At the beginning, I haven’t any knowledge about Salesforce.com technologies. I have identified the Force.com discussion board as a home for a newbie since there are lots of experts to answer our technical issues. I found “Bob Buzzard” (Keir Bowden) in the Force.com discussion board and he was playing with the technical issues. He helped me a lot of my technical issues. He is an answering machine. He has a tremendous blog. I followed his way and I have used his achievements as a reference.
It is with great privilege that I write this review of Visualforce Development Cookbook which authored by Keir Bowden. It is aimed at developers who have some experience on Visualforce and packs over 75 recipes in the 300+ pages.
This book covers all the techniques that we use in day to day developments in Visualforce. Sometimes we struggle to come up with a particular solution. Sometime we will waste considerable time to sort out the particular issue. This book has solutions with step-by-step instructions for such technical issues. For an example, we have already developed Visualforce pages with JavaScripts and jQuery. But we are getting issues when developing them. This book has the recipes for Visualforce developments with JavaScripts and jQuery. It will help us as guidance to Visualforce developers with JavaScripts and jQuery.
My favorite chapters are Visualforce chart, Javascript, Force.com sites and jQuery mobile. There were lots of things to learn.
Still, there are few books on Visualforce and this book covers almost all the cookbook recipes. I would recommend this book for those who have some experience on Visualforce developments.
This review has been originally published on my blog: http://salesforceworld.blogspot.com/2...
It is with great privilege that I write this review of Visualforce Development Cookbook which authored by Keir Bowden. It is aimed at developers who have some experience on Visualforce and packs over 75 recipes in the 300+ pages.
This book covers all the techniques that we use in day to day developments in Visualforce. Sometimes we struggle to come up with a particular solution. Sometime we will waste considerable time to sort out the particular issue. This book has solutions with step-by-step instructions for such technical issues. For an example, we have already developed Visualforce pages with JavaScripts and jQuery. But we are getting issues when developing them. This book has the recipes for Visualforce developments with JavaScripts and jQuery. It will help us as guidance to Visualforce developers with JavaScripts and jQuery.
My favorite chapters are Visualforce chart, Javascript, Force.com sites and jQuery mobile. There were lots of things to learn.
Still, there are few books on Visualforce and this book covers almost all the cookbook recipes. I would recommend this book for those who have some experience on Visualforce developments.
This review has been originally published on my blog: http://salesforceworld.blogspot.com/2...
March 8, 2014
I thought I knew a lot about Visualforce but this excellent book has taught me some new tricks and I'm only up to Chapter 4! Written by noted SFDC contributor whose forum nom de plume is bob buzzard. Very highly recommended.
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