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Learning Force.com Application Development
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Learning Force.com Application Development

by Chamil Madusanka
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
406 pages
8h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Appendix A. Force.com Tools

In the Force.com platform, all the development and deployment can be done via the browser version. However, there are some tasks that can be easily completed using a tool rather than the browser version, for example, Data Loader for uploading bulk data, the Force.com IDE for developing Apex classes and Visualforce pages, the Migration tool for deploying the Force.com components from one organization to another, and so on. We can categorize the Force.com tools into the following categories:

  • Development tools
  • Data tools
  • Cloud integration tools
  • Language integration libraries
  • Salesforce platform mobile services

In this chapter, we will provide a high-level description of these tools.

Development tools

Development tools are the ...

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