Summary

This chapter has quickly introduced you to some of the capabilities of Visualforce pages. You have seen how you can change the look and feel of pages in a Force Platform application, as well as add AJAX-like functionality to increase the range of your pages, while providing advanced interface capabilities.

You also learned about the power of standard set controllers that make it possible for you to easily create pages that allow users to view multiple records in a handy, paginated format, and even perform actions on groups of selected records, all without any procedural code.

Visualforce pages give you all of this, but there is more to Visualforce technology than pages. At the start of this chapter, you learned about the full scope of this technology, which included the ability to create controllers that extend or replace the standard interactions between a Visualforce page and Force Platform data.

Visualforce custom controllers are implemented with Apex code, so before you can move into the creation of controllers and controller extensions, you need to learn Apex. Over the next two chapters, you will.