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Salesforce Developer Quick Tip: How to Run Anonymous Apex in Visual Studio Code
ByCoding With The Force Inc January 23, 2026January 23, 2026

As an Apex developer, you often need to quickly test a class or verify logic without going through the full process of writing a formal test class (especially if you aren’t strictly following Test-Driven Development). In the Developer Console, this is easy—you just open the “Execute Anonymous” window. But if you are working in Visual…

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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the SFDX Scanner Salesforce CLI Plugin for Static Code Analysis
ByCoding With The Force Inc October 18, 2020December 11, 2023

Why Use Static Code Analysis Tools? There are two major reasons to use static code analysis tools: 1) They make you a better developer. These industry standard rules exist for a reason. To make code clean, modular and easy for all the developers that come after you to deal with. So be a kewl guy…

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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Uncrustify to automatically format your code in Visual Studio Code
ByCoding With The Force Inc October 18, 2020December 11, 2023

Why would you want to setup Auto Code Formatting? Aside from the fact that it’s both magical and amazing, it also enables you to easily do a couple things: 1) If you get onboarded to a project with a horrific looking codebase with nightmarish formatting, you can fix that by running a single command on…

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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development
ByCoding With The Force Inc October 13, 2020December 11, 2023

Why use an IDE? First things first… after you use an IDE you will never ask this question again. IT MAKES YOUR LIFE SO MUCH EASIER! Please take the time to leverage an IDE when doing development. Your work will take a fraction of the time it would take otherwise. Ever wish your code editor…

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Salesforce Development: How to Setup Illuminated Cloud 2 with the IntelliJ IDE
ByCoding With The Force Inc September 8, 2020December 11, 2023

What is an IDE? IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. Its primary purpose is to make your life as a developer considerably easier by doing things like: 1) Syntax Highlighting2) Auto-completing functions names, field names, object names, etc.3) Integrating git easily4) Improving debugging functionality5) Putting your command line in the same place you develop.6) Tons…

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