Winter 13 Release Developer Preview Webinar

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 Now GA

§  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


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


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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@dcarroll @samantha_ready


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