Salesforce Apex Master Class (Ep. 5) - How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development

Apex Master Class: Ep. 4 of 132

In this video we go over how to setup visual studio code for Salesforce Development. Setting up Visual Studio Code makes your life much easier as a Salesforce Developer.

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Why use an IDE?
3:47 - What you need to install
6:33 - How to setup a project
10:29 - Connecting to your org
14:05 - Pulling Metadata using the Org Browser
15:45 - How to setup autocomplete for object fields
18:16 - How to setup auto-deploy on save
19:56 - How to setup auto-conflict detection
21:39 - How to enable sutomatic SObject definition refresh
23:03 - Pulling Metadata using the manifest file
28:10 - Outro

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