Salesforce Development with Salesforce Apex

Introduction

• Speaker: Amit Singh
  • 9+ years of experience in Salesforce
  • Educator at various platforms
  • Awarded Salesforce MVP 3 times
  • 21 Salesforce certifications
  • Leading Salesforce Architect Group in India
• Series: Salesforce development with Salesforce Apex Hours
• Agenda:
  • Introduction to Salesforce
  • Introduction to Apex
  • Basics including data types, operators, access modifiers, and control structures
  • Tools for developers

Salesforce Overview

• What is Salesforce?
  • CRM platform
  • Used to manage sales, customer relationships, partnerships, and growth
  • SaaS platform (software as a service)
• Salesforce Products:
  • Sales Cloud: Sales management
  • Service Cloud: Case management and customer service
  • Experience Cloud: Website development
  • Marketing Cloud: Marketing automation
  • Integration Tools: MuleSoft Composer
• Developer Tools:
  • Free Developer Org: Sign up at developer.salesforce.com/signup
  • Sandbox environment for testing and development
• Multi-Tenant Platform:
  • Single server shared by multiple customers
  • Utilizes governor limits to ensure fair resource usage

Setting Up Developer Org

• Sign-up Process:
  • Visit developer.salesforce.com/signup
  • Fill out the required fields
  • UNIQUE username (doesn't need to match email)
  • Verify your email and log in
• Developer Console:
  • Access via Gear icon -> Developer Console
  • Execute anonymous window for coding

Introduction to Apex

• What is Apex?
  • Strongly typed, object-oriented programming language
  • Purely OOP
  • Developed, managed, and maintained by Salesforce
  • Syntax similar to Java
• Data Types:
  • Primitive Types: String, Integer, Decimal, Double, Boolean
  • Standard Objects: Account, Contact
  • Collection Types: List, Set, Map
  • Default value for variables: null

Creating Variables in Apex

• Syntax: String name = 'Amit Singh'; Integer age = 30; Boolean isAdmin = false;
• System Debug:
  • System.debug(variable); to output variable values
• Example: String name = 'Amit Singh'; System.debug(name); // outputs 'Amit Singh'

Operators in Apex

• Arithmetic Operators: +, -, /, *
• Assignment Operators: =, +=, -=, *=, /=
• Logical Operators: && (AND), || (OR)
• Equality Operators: == (equals), != (not equals)
• Increment/Decrement: ++, --
• Null Coalescing Operator: ??
• Usage: Integer a = 10; Integer b = 20; Integer sum = a + b; System.debug(sum); // outputs 30 sum += 10; // equivalent to sum = sum + 10;

Control Statements

• If-Else Statement: if (condition) { // logic if true } else { // logic if false }
  • Nested If-Else possible
• Example: Integer age = 40; if (age >= 60) { System.debug('Old Age'); } else if (age >= 50) { System.debug('Medium Age'); } else { System.debug('Youth'); }

Tools and Resources

• Developer Console: Tool for writing and executing Apex code
• VS Code: Modern IDE for Salesforce development
• Accessing Developer Console:
  • Gear icon -> Developer Console
  • Writing code using Execute Anonymous Window