Additional Resources

A variety of resources are available to supplement this book.

Documentation

This book is intended to be a productive starting point for developers new to the Force Platform. There are two additional books in the Force Platform library -

• Force Platform Fundamentals: An Introduction to Custom Application Development in the Cloud, available on the Developer Force website at http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Force_Platform_Fundamentals, intended as a more general introduction to the Force Platform and

• The Force Platform Cookbook, available at wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Force_Platform_Cookbook, a series of recipes with more detailed techniques and code samples

In addition, documentation for the Force platform is available both on-line within the platform and in additional documents:

• Access the Help & Training window by clicking Help or Help & Training in the upper-right corner of any Force Platform page. Alternatively, access a context-sensitive view of the Help & Training window by clicking Help for this Page on the right side of any page title bar, or the help link on the right side of any related list.

• Review white papers, multimedia presentations, and other documentation at the Developer Force site, the home for Force Platform developers, at force.developer.com.

Visualforce:

• Read the Visualforce Developer’s Guide, available at http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/pages/index.htm.

• Review white papers, multimedia presentations, and other documentation in the Visualforce section of the Developer Force website at http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Visualforce.

Apex:

• Read the Apex Developer’s Guide, available at www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/index.htm.

• Review white papers, multimedia presentations, and other documentation in the Apex section of the Developer Force website at http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Apex_and_Visualforce.

Force Platform Web Services API:

• Read the Force Platform Web Services API Developer’s Guide, available at www.salesforce.com/apidoc.

• Review whitepapers, multimedia presentations, and other documentation in the Web Services API section of the Developer Force website at wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Web_Services_API.

• Review white papers, multimedia presentations, and other documentation in the Web Services API section of the Developer Force website at wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Web_Services_API.

• Read the Force Platform Metadata API Developer’s Guide, available at http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_meta/index.htm.