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Marketing Marketing 27Marketing Marketing 27 

SFDX How to Import only a few specific apex classes from your connected org?

Just started using VS code and SFDX for development work and am trying to use it to update classes I had previously written in the developer console.

My question is, how can I import just a few select classes into the VS code project without pulling all of them? I know that you can right click on Package XML and click Retrieve Source in Manifest from Org, but that brings in everyting, and I don't want that.

Is there a terminal command that can solve for this?

Thanks
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VinayVinay (Salesforce Developers) 
You would need to update your package.xml file with specific apex class names which you want to retrieve using vs code.
  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>Class1</members>
        <members>Class2</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <version>54.0</version>
</Package>

Please mark as Best Answer if above information was helpful.

Thanks,

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VinayVinay (Salesforce Developers) 
You would need to update your package.xml file with specific apex class names which you want to retrieve using vs code.
  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>Class1</members>
        <members>Class2</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <version>54.0</version>
</Package>

Please mark as Best Answer if above information was helpful.

Thanks,
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Marketing Marketing 27Marketing Marketing 27
Ahh, so the class names come before the <name>ApexClass</name> element?

One more quetion: If I delete the other class files it imported from the project folder and then run sfdx force:source:push, will that delete those classes from the connected org or will it only delete them from VS code?
VinayVinay (Salesforce Developers) 
Yes '<name>ApexClass</name>' comes before and no it wont delete any other class if you have not included them in package.xml unless you run destructive changes in vs code.

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_deploy_deleting_files.htm

Thanks,
Marketing Marketing 27Marketing Marketing 27
Thank you so much Vinay! Much appreciated.