Winter 13 Release Developer Preview Webinar

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Winter ‘13 Release Developer Preview

Samantha Ready Developer Evangelist @samantha_ready Dave Carroll Director, Developer Evangelism @dcarroll


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Agenda

New Stuff for Visualforce Geolocation Custom Fields

Force.com Canvas

Apex Code Updates

Continuing Evolution of Developer Console

Other Platform Updates


Visualforce Updates


Visualforce Charting

§  New & existing chart types include: bar, line, pie, area, gauge, radar, and scatter

§  Customizable color scheme

§  Advanced rendering control – (i.e. with JavaScript Remoting)

•  delayed loading of data

•  reloading of data

•  show/hide charts

•  re-rendering charts for partial page refreshes

Now GA


Pass Through Attributes

§  Uses arbitrary attributes on the <apex:outputPanel> component

§  Prefix attributes with "html-" to be passed through to resulting HTML


Inline Editing for Picklists

§  Dependent picklists support inline editing §  Add <apex:inlineEditSupport>as a child component to the

dependant or controlling <apex:outputField>


Dynamic References with <apex:inputText>

§  Use references to lists and maps for creating forms

§  Facilitates working with a single map rather than a series of instance variables

§  Simplifies working with data that is not in your org's schema


Geolocation Fields—Beta


Geolocation Custom Fields—Beta

§  New geolocation custom field type §  Makes calculating distance much easier

§  New expression for SOQL

§  New formula functions added: •  Distance

•  Geolocation

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Force.com Canvas—Pilot


What the heck is Force.com Canvas?


Things you need to know about Force.com Canvas

It’s all about context §  App Load: send a signed request to external system

§  Context includes •  Canvas Context – Access to other contexts

•  Environment Context – canvas dimensions, ui theme, etc

•  Link Context – Useful URLs including Rest API, SOAP API and Metadata API

•  Organization Context – Multicurrency, Org Id and Currency Code

•  User Context – User Id, Profile Id, locale, full name, etc


Important Demo


Apex Code Updates


Apex Code Features

Maps and Sets now support non-primitive types for keys Map<SObject, List<SObject>> childMap = new Map<SObject, List<SObject>>();

New methods on String Object •  abbreviate, center, join, repeat, rightPad, capitalize, swapCase, isAllLowerCase, containsAny, containsNone, countMatches, indexOfAny, substringAfter, substringBetween, escapeHTML3, excapeXml, unescapeXml, isAlpha, isNumeric, isEmpty, isNotEmpty

Additional JSON Support DeleteResult, LeadConvertResult, SaveResult, UpsertResult


Apex Code Testing Improvements

•  You can now load test data from static resources List<sObject> ls = Test.loadData(Account.sObjectType, 'myResource');

•  The contents of ‘myresource’ should be a CSV file with correct custom field names in the first line

•  Support for Callout Testing •  Both HTTP callouts for REST services and SOAP callouts.

•  Implement HttpCalloutMock interface •  Can store JSON in Static Resource if retrieved in test context


Developer Console Updates


Test Tool

§  Check code coverage §  Edit, debug, and test

applications in the Developer Console

§  Run Apex unit tests on the server

§  Run tests for any combination of classes you select


Query Editor §  Query data from your org §  Write queries and verify

results for sanity checks

§  Insert, edit, and delete records in the Developer Console


Perspectives

§  Customizable layout of panels §  Organizes and simplifies

System Log views to match your needs

§  Switch between perspectives as you change tasks

•  ex. One perspective for analyzing performance, another for all-purpose debugging


Command Line Window

§  Execute anonymous Apex code

§  Search the resulting debug log for specific terms


Other Platform Updates


Other Updates

•  Schema Builder Updates •  You can now delete objects and fields directly in the Schema Builder!

•  Security Updates •  Authentication Provider – Link to existing user accounts •  New Auth Provider parameters – StartUrl and Scope •  Clickjacking Protection – prevent your jacks from being clicked!

•  Others •  Environment Hub •  Custom Object Truncation


Dreamforce Sessions

7 Habits of Highly Efficient Visualforce Pages §  Tues 1:00pm-2:00pm

Introduction to Force.com Canvas Apps §  Tues 2:30pm-3:30pm

Next Generation Debugging with the Developer Console and Tooling API

§  Thurs 10:30am-11:30am


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Q&A

Dave Carroll

Director, Developer Evangelism @dcarroll

Samantha Ready

Developer Evangelist @samantha_ready


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