Course
Skills Expanded
Force.com for .NET Developers
A high level introduction to Force.com development intended specifically for .NET developers
What you'll learn
Force.com is a unique cloud development platform that is in many ways different from traditional software development platforms - even those based on cloud technologies. This short course is designed specifically for .NET developers to understand the nature of Force.com by comparing and translating .NET concepts to their Force.com equivalents. In particular, this course serves as a prequel for .NET developers to the course "Force.com and Apex Fundamentals for Developers"
Table of contents
What Every .NET Developer Should Know About Force.com
13mins
Shifting Paradigms - .NET to Force.com
31mins
- You can't get there from here 2m
- Foundations - ancient windows programming 2m
- Things get RAD (that's Rapid Application Development) 2m
- Visual Studio (before .NET) 3m
- Visual Studio .NET 2m
- Visual Studio .NET (example) 7m
- Force.com (example - defining an object) 2m
- Force.com (example - Editing and displaying an object) 2m
- Force.com (example - Validation rules) 2m
- Force.com (example - Page layouts) 1m
- The paradigm shift 3m
- Implications and side-effects 3m
Mapping .NET Concepts to Force.com
35mins
- Beyond tooling 2m
- C# and VB .NET to Apex 5m
- Execution context, static variables, limits and bulk operations 4m
- The class library 3m
- ASP.Net to Visualforce 2m
- Visualforce example 6m
- WCF to Force.com REST and SOAP 5m
- .NET security to Force.com security - what is .NET security? 4m
- The Force.com security paradigm 6m
