Released yesterday is a new trail titled, “Apply .NET Skills to Salesforce” and it is all about wooing more .NET developers to the Salesforce platform, which I am of course, all for.
This FREE and most excellent resource is written by a .NET developer for .NET developers. It does not sugar coat anything about the platform, but instead tells .NET developers honestly and directly what the platform offers and how their existing .NET skills can allow them to transition easily to Force.com. It also points out a lot of the common pitfalls they will want to avoid to be successful on the platform.
It consists of two modules. The first is all about SOQL and database basics and it has the following 4 units:
- Moving from SQL to SOQL
- Writing SOSL queries
- Writing Efficient Queries
- Manipulating Records with DML
The second module (which is my absolute favorite), it all about Apex and the Force.com platform and it has the following units:
- Mapping .NET concepts to Force.com
- Understanding Execution Context
- Using Asynchronous Apex
- Debugging and Running Diagnostics
I hope you check them out, as well as the Salesforce platform, which is growing more impressive by the day. And please let me know what you think.
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