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Visualforce Developer's Guide
120 pages, Paperback
First published September 14, 2013
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December 14, 2013
First of all thanks to Packt Publishing and “Sagar Malage” to give me a copy of this book for review. I also want to say thanks to “Chamil Madusanka” the Author of “Visualforce Developer’s guide” to write a good book for Beginner and for experienced professional who want to learn about Visualforce. Many time peoples take my advice to refer some book related to Visuaforce. I can say Visualforce Developer’s guide is the perfect book to start with Visualforce.
What is this book all about ?
Visualforce Developer’s guide is for newbies or experienced professionals who want to start with Visualforce or want to learn basic concepts of Visualforce. The author has used enough amount of code to describe the topics. One plus point about this book is that it contains ample amount of examples to help you understand and use Visualforce development tools in your custom UI interfaces. “Visualforce Developer’s Guide” starts with an introduction to Visualforce to give you an understanding of the MVC model and the Visualforce architecture. In the next few chapters the author has talked about various ways to reuse and minimize the Visualforce and Apex code through Visualforce dynamic binding. Last few chapters is focused on building Visualforce pages for mobile devices and at end of the book, you will learn the best practices and security tips for Apex and Visualforce development. I like Visualforce Charting chapter a lot.
Who is this book for ?
As per my understanding this book is for all Newbies or experienced professionals who want to start with Visualforce or want to learn core concepts of Visualforce. If you are preparing for Salesforce Advance Developer exam (Dev 501), You can start with this book and later on jump to “Visualforce Development Cookbook” book Authored by Bob Buzzard Aka Keir Bowden to improve your knowledge.
How book is Organized ?
This book is organized in 5 Chapters and includes all aspects of Visualforce development concepts MVC model, Vissualforce architecture, Concepts of Controller and Extensions, Visualforce Charting and many more. At the end of the book you can learn best practice for Visualforce development it will help you to boost your knowledge. Steps mentioned in this book are very easy to follow and with Output. You won’t find any problem to follow steps for recipes.
Few reasons to buy this book?
1) If you are new to Visualfroce and want to learn Visualforce basics concepts then this book is for you.
2) If you want to learn how to develop Visualforce for Mobile.
3) These topics /Core topics Controllers and Extensions, Custom Components, Visualforce Charting are described from basics so newbie can also learn very fast.
4) Visualforce Developer’s guide is a pocket guide that will resolve your most frequently faced issues.
5) Finally a perfect book to start with Visualforce.
Where to buy this book ?
This book is avaliable on almost all internet book retailers like Packt Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Safari Books Online, O Reilly even Google Play store and iTunes store as well. Below are the few link from where you can buy this book
iTunes Store:- https://itunes.apple.com/en/book/visu...
Amazon.com :- http://www.amazon.com/dp/178217981X/?...
Safari Books Online :- http://my.safaribooksonline.com/97817...
What is this book all about ?
Visualforce Developer’s guide is for newbies or experienced professionals who want to start with Visualforce or want to learn basic concepts of Visualforce. The author has used enough amount of code to describe the topics. One plus point about this book is that it contains ample amount of examples to help you understand and use Visualforce development tools in your custom UI interfaces. “Visualforce Developer’s Guide” starts with an introduction to Visualforce to give you an understanding of the MVC model and the Visualforce architecture. In the next few chapters the author has talked about various ways to reuse and minimize the Visualforce and Apex code through Visualforce dynamic binding. Last few chapters is focused on building Visualforce pages for mobile devices and at end of the book, you will learn the best practices and security tips for Apex and Visualforce development. I like Visualforce Charting chapter a lot.
Who is this book for ?
As per my understanding this book is for all Newbies or experienced professionals who want to start with Visualforce or want to learn core concepts of Visualforce. If you are preparing for Salesforce Advance Developer exam (Dev 501), You can start with this book and later on jump to “Visualforce Development Cookbook” book Authored by Bob Buzzard Aka Keir Bowden to improve your knowledge.
How book is Organized ?
This book is organized in 5 Chapters and includes all aspects of Visualforce development concepts MVC model, Vissualforce architecture, Concepts of Controller and Extensions, Visualforce Charting and many more. At the end of the book you can learn best practice for Visualforce development it will help you to boost your knowledge. Steps mentioned in this book are very easy to follow and with Output. You won’t find any problem to follow steps for recipes.
Few reasons to buy this book?
1) If you are new to Visualfroce and want to learn Visualforce basics concepts then this book is for you.
2) If you want to learn how to develop Visualforce for Mobile.
3) These topics /Core topics Controllers and Extensions, Custom Components, Visualforce Charting are described from basics so newbie can also learn very fast.
4) Visualforce Developer’s guide is a pocket guide that will resolve your most frequently faced issues.
5) Finally a perfect book to start with Visualforce.
Where to buy this book ?
This book is avaliable on almost all internet book retailers like Packt Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Safari Books Online, O Reilly even Google Play store and iTunes store as well. Below are the few link from where you can buy this book
iTunes Store:- https://itunes.apple.com/en/book/visu...
Amazon.com :- http://www.amazon.com/dp/178217981X/?...
Safari Books Online :- http://my.safaribooksonline.com/97817...
December 18, 2013
1.This book is having 8 chapters with step by step things to follow ,it covers basics in the first chapter to advance level in the final chapter.
2.Key point of this book is best practices and security tips for the visualforce are also included.
3.Steps are detailed and easy to follow, you hardly miss anything that visualforce have.
Following are the chapter wise things i liked and which i think that makes this book different
1.Chapter One: Advantages of visualforce.
2.Chapter Two: Working with large sets of data on visualforce page.
Using Transient Keyword
Considerations for creating custom controllers and controller extensions ( That is again as i said is part of best practices).
3.Chapter Three: I liked the way javascript and jQuery explained in this chapter.
4.Chapter Four: Good brief description about custom components
5.Chapter Five: Detailed discussion about dynamic binding .
6.Chapter Six: Visualforce Charting: This a must read chapter if you have never touched the charting part of visualforce best effort are made by author to explain . I also got good knowledge from this chapter.
7.Chapter Seven : Going Mobile with visualforce? Take look at this chapter, nicely written and explained .I recommend developers who are looking to learn the mobile part of visualforce to start with this book .
8.Chapter Eight: It includes best practices part, that most books miss.
I loved the way this book ends with Security tips.
Why to go for this book?
1.Easy and quick to understand.
2.Hands-on Approach
3.Basic development to Mobile Development Included.
4.Security and Best Practices Included.
2.Key point of this book is best practices and security tips for the visualforce are also included.
3.Steps are detailed and easy to follow, you hardly miss anything that visualforce have.
Following are the chapter wise things i liked and which i think that makes this book different
1.Chapter One: Advantages of visualforce.
2.Chapter Two: Working with large sets of data on visualforce page.
Using Transient Keyword
Considerations for creating custom controllers and controller extensions ( That is again as i said is part of best practices).
3.Chapter Three: I liked the way javascript and jQuery explained in this chapter.
4.Chapter Four: Good brief description about custom components
5.Chapter Five: Detailed discussion about dynamic binding .
6.Chapter Six: Visualforce Charting: This a must read chapter if you have never touched the charting part of visualforce best effort are made by author to explain . I also got good knowledge from this chapter.
7.Chapter Seven : Going Mobile with visualforce? Take look at this chapter, nicely written and explained .I recommend developers who are looking to learn the mobile part of visualforce to start with this book .
8.Chapter Eight: It includes best practices part, that most books miss.
I loved the way this book ends with Security tips.
Why to go for this book?
1.Easy and quick to understand.
2.Hands-on Approach
3.Basic development to Mobile Development Included.
4.Security and Best Practices Included.
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