Preface

The Visualforce framework allows developers to build highly customized, personalized, and branded user interfaces for their Salesforce, Force.com, and Salesforce1 applications. Hosted natively on the Salesforce platform, Visualforce gives developers complete control over all areas of the user interface, allowing them to satisfy complex business requirements and support multiple devices.   

Visualforce pages use a mixture of HTML and Visualforce components, which are processed server-side and delivered to the browser as HTML. This allows the use of standard web technologies, such as CSS and JavaScript, to provide an enriched and dynamic user experience.

The Visualforce Development Cookbook provides solutions for a variety of challenges faced by the Salesforce developers and demonstrates how easy it is to build rich interactive pages for both desktop and mobile devices using Visualforce. Each recipe contains clear, step-by-step instructions along with detailed explanations of the key areas of Visualforce, Apex or JavaScript code, that deliver the solution.

Whether you are looking to make a minor addition to the standard page functionality or override it completely, this book will provide you with practical examples that can be readily adapted to a number of scenarios.