I'm a relatively experienced developer, but am new to salesforce. A client has asked us to put together an application to demo some things for them. I've been able to do what I want to do so far, but I've been having a number of headaches with salesforce in general.
My first issue was that building things (Objects, Tabs, Apps, etc) with the web-interface, while functional, was way too slow to do things on the scale I want to do them. This is understandable -- it's a web interface, and it needs to be usable by users at every point along the experience spectrum.
I looked around for a more "heavyweight" solution for developing Salesforce stuff and found the Force IDE plugin for Eclipse (distributed on this website). I've got that up and running, and while it works, I seem to keep hitting weird annoying glitches.
My most recent frustration is the IDE's weird tendency to revert all the changes I made to an object if it fails validation -- I'll hit Alt+F S to save, it will churn for a bit, throw an error in the "Problems" tab and then mysteriously revert all the changes I made since last succesful (error free save). I'm able to work around by hitting Ctrl+Z, but obviously this is really annoying.
I'm sure this is related to me doing something wrong, but it seems like it's one thing after another. I'm a developer so I understand that it can take a while to get the bugs worked out of things, but this is really frustrating. Is there an alternate way to do this stuff? Is there anyway I can use Visual Studio? Is there a more polished version of the Eclipse plugin? Thanks for any help you guys can give me,
I'm a relatively experienced developer, but am new to salesforce. A client has asked us to put together an application to demo some things for them. I've been able to do what I want to do so far, but I've been having a number of headaches with salesforce in general.
My first issue was that building things (Objects, Tabs, Apps, etc) with the web-interface, while functional, was way too slow to do things on the scale I want to do them. This is understandable -- it's a web interface, and it needs to be usable by users at every point along the experience spectrum.
I looked around for a more "heavyweight" solution for developing Salesforce stuff and found the Force IDE plugin for Eclipse (distributed on this website). I've got that up and running, and while it works, I seem to keep hitting weird annoying glitches.
My most recent frustration is the IDE's weird tendency to revert all the changes I made to an object if it fails validation -- I'll hit Alt+F S to save, it will churn for a bit, throw an error in the "Problems" tab and then mysteriously revert all the changes I made since last succesful (error free save). I'm able to work around by hitting Ctrl+Z, but obviously this is really annoying.
I'm sure this is related to me doing something wrong, but it seems like it's one thing after another. I'm a developer so I understand that it can take a while to get the bugs worked out of things, but this is really frustrating. Is there an alternate way to do this stuff? Is there anyway I can use Visual Studio? Is there a more polished version of the Eclipse plugin? Thanks for any help you guys can give me,
