Cloud9 for Salesforce Developers

First Impressions of the BetaBy Jeff Arwady, Senior Salesforce Developer for ASM Services

Create a New Workspace

The button that cannot be missed.

Create a New Workspace

Can’t screw this up! ;-)

Connect to Salesforce

No need to use your Security Token! (and there was much rejoicing...yay…)

Cloud9 for Salesforce - Inside Your IDE

Your Cloud9 Salesforce IDE Workspace - a dichotomous combination of remarkable productivity and simplicity.

A very convenient drop-down menu gives you access to your meta-xml via the “Show Hidden Files” menu item.

Dropdown Menu

The Force.com immediate query window is seamless and works exactly like you would intuit.

Force.com Immediate Query Window

For Execute Anonymous there is still some work to be done. Here for example, you’d need to

use shift + enter to make a new line. Also don’t be a putz and forget the semicolon...oh wait…

Execute Anonymous

The “Refresh from Salesforce” menu item will refresh all folders in your project from Salesforce.

Refresh from Salesforce

Having collapsible code block sections is just one of the many easy-to-use and helpful features

in the code editor.

Collapsible Code Block

Visualforce looks great in Cloud9!

VisualForce

Cloud9 supports all of your Lightning Development!

Lightning

You’ll still be relying on Salesforce’s Apex Test Execution to test your code in the initial release.

Salesforce Apex Test Execution

My favorite feature of the Developer Console is the aggregate code coverage - avail yourself of it!

Aggregate Code Coverage

Packages and Outbound Changesets will still be your tools of choice for deployment.

Packages and Outbound Changesets

is a Senior Salesforce Developer for ASM

Services in Southfield, MI.

Jeff Arwady