Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Uncrustify to automatically format your code in Visual Studio Code
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Uncrustify to automatically format your code in Visual Studio Code

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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…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development

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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…

Salesforce Development (LWC): How to Communicate between Aura Components and Lightning Web Components Using Custom Events and the Api Decorator
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Salesforce Development (LWC): How to Communicate between Aura Components and Lightning Web Components Using Custom Events and the Api Decorator

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Why Would You Want to Communicate Between Component Types? There are a bunch of reasons it’s beneficial to communicate between component types but the most common ones that I have found are the following: 1) You’re building a new component and realize you need functionality that only Aura Components support, but it’s a very small…

Salesforce Development: How to use Custom Settings to Bypass Your Triggers in Production
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Salesforce Development: How to use Custom Settings to Bypass Your Triggers in Production

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Why On Earth Would We Ever Build Trigger Bypasses? This is an excellent question and one I wondered myself… until my team and I had to do a monstrous 50,000,000 record load into Salesforce for a deployment, lol. I was stumped… how on earth could I ever pull this off without taking days or weeks…

Salesforce Development: How to Make Sure Your Process Builders Never Fire Your Apex Triggers
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Salesforce Development: How to Make Sure Your Process Builders Never Fire Your Apex Triggers

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Why Would We Want Our Process Builders to Bypass Our Triggers? If you didn’t know process builders fire your triggers every single time they make an update to a record or insert a new record. If you have 5 different update actions in your process builders that means you could potentially fire your triggers 5…

Salesforce Development (LWC) : Creating a configurable Lightning Web Component using Custom Metadata
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Salesforce Development (LWC) : Creating a configurable Lightning Web Component using Custom Metadata

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What is Custom Metadata and why would we create a configurable Lightning Web Component? Custom Metadata is a wonderful thing. You set it up much like a custom object, but you use it for an entirely different purpose. Typically you use custom metadata much like you would utilize a config file in many other development…

Salesforce Development: How to Setup Illuminated Cloud 2 with the IntelliJ IDE
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Salesforce Development: How to Setup Illuminated Cloud 2 with the IntelliJ IDE

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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…

Salesforce Development: Creating a Self-Scheduling Apex Class
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Salesforce Development: Creating a Self-Scheduling Apex Class

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Why This Is Useful Have you ever wondered, “How do I effectively schedule an apex class to run every single minute of the day?” or maybe every hour or second (please don’t schedule anything every second, lol). Well there’s a great way to do it, by having your scheduled apex class reschedule itself! This method…