11 posts tagged with "development"
Everything you need to know about Scratch Orgs — what they are, creating them from org shapes, working with unlocked packages, and integrating scratch orgs into your development workflow.
Using Salesforce platform features in Apex — static resources for files, custom metadata types for app configuration, custom settings for org/user preferences, and custom labels for multilingual support.
Writing effective Apex test classes — minimum requirements, test setup, assertions, data factories, integration vs unit tests, Test.startTest/stopTest, and building a comprehensive test suite.
Everything about Apex triggers — trigger context variables, trigger handlers, bulkification, the order of execution, and best practices for writing production-grade triggers.
Enforcing security in Apex code — with/without/inherited sharing, object and field-level security, SOQL injection prevention, Apex managed sharing, and building security-aware applications.
Master the art of debugging Apex — debug logs in the Developer Console and VS Code, System.debug, code chunking, the Log Panel for identifying bottlenecks, and a hands-on debugging project.
Understanding type casting in Apex — implicit and explicit casting, upcasting and downcasting sObjects, the instanceof operator, and practical patterns for working with generic types.
Understanding error handling in Apex — exception types, try-catch-finally blocks, creating and throwing custom exceptions, and building resilient Salesforce applications.
Everything you need to know about querying data in Salesforce — SOQL SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, LIMIT, IN clauses, SOSL FIND and RETURNING, query limits, indexing, the Query Plan tool, and using queries in Apex.
Master control flow in Apex — if/else statements, switch statements, for loops, enhanced for loops, while and do-while loops, and best practices for iterating over collections efficiently.
Your entry point into Salesforce development — what Apex is, setting up your IDE, classes, variables, data types, methods, constructors, operators, collections, access modifiers, and the static keyword.