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Visualforce Tutorials

February 11, 2015

Visualforce is Salesforce’s all-in-one UI programming language.

Follow these guides in order to quickly learn Visualforce – there’s not a lot to it!

Beginning Visualforce:

  1. Getting started with Visualforce
  2. The Model-View-Controller pattern
  3. Where to write Visualforce code
  4. Example: How to create a basic Visualforce page
  5. Combining HTML, CSS, and Javascript in Visualforce

Advanced Visualforce:

  1. Introduction to Controllers and Extensions
  2. How to use advanced Visualforce components
  3. Example: How to create an interactive Visualforce page!
  4. Example: How to write a test class for a Visualforce page!

Psst – don’t forget to check out the official Visualforce tutorials on Trailhead!

37 Comments
Teck Lung Ng
March 10, 2022 @ 4:54 am

Hi David,

Are you gonna create a similar UI tutorial for Lightning Web Components (LWC)?

Thanks!

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    David Liu
    March 18, 2022 @ 11:02 pm

    Probably not!

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Ronnie
January 20, 2022 @ 10:04 am

First off, great site.
I am new here I am coming from a .NET world but it appears my company is about to get into SalesForce.
Actually, they are looking to get Revenova (https://www.revenova.com/) which is a CRM on top of Salesforce.

They coding their UI using the Lightning framework rather then using VisualForce.

I come across this
https://docmation.com/visualforce-or-lightning/#:~:text=Visualforce%20assists%20in%20the%20creation,both%20mobile%20and%20desktop%20devices.

The bottom line is I know nothing about Salesforce, I come from the .NET world.
What would you suggest for me to start learning to be productive in this new field?

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Theodore Ray
December 7, 2020 @ 1:08 pm

David – got really excited by the first few chapters here especially as Salesforce don’t have any VF tutorials left on Trailhead (and my employer’s org’s not moving to lighting anytime soon…) But sooo many empty links in the content list David – so much untapped potential… When are you going to finish this so it’s the kickass, world-class set of resources it is meant to be?

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Rithu Nuthalganti
June 20, 2019 @ 3:41 pm

Hi David,

It would be of great help if you could also include Visualforce concepts in your 15 week Developer course, like how you did for Apex triggers, SOQL and Lightning. Or can you recommend some good resources apart from Trailhead to get me started on Visualforce programming?

I’ve been preparing for my interviews and just started watching your videos on Pluralsight- very well structured and clearly explained. Love watching and along with you. Great work David!

Thanks,
Rithu

Thanks,
Rithu

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Syfullah Arife
June 19, 2018 @ 7:10 am

I am reading Visualforce Tutorial but some links are not working

Combining HTML, CSS, and Javascript in Visualforce

Advanced Visualforce:

Introduction to Controllers and Extensions
How to use advanced Visualforce components
Example: How to create an interactive Visualforce page!
Example: How to write a test class for a Visualforce page!

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    David Liu
    June 19, 2018 @ 9:15 pm

    Haven’t been written =( They might never be written actually! (At least by me!)

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Yoganand
December 19, 2017 @ 2:56 am

Great resource for newbies. Very nicely put chapters that help beginners learn in a very unique way. thanks for your efforts in putting this material online.

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    Diogo Pacheco Pedro
    May 16, 2018 @ 12:59 am

    great to hear i will start today on this. excited

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Anonymous
November 1, 2017 @ 9:27 pm

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    David Liu
    November 1, 2017 @ 11:03 pm

    HI!

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agrawal
February 7, 2017 @ 5:56 pm

Hi David, I need your help as I am all puzzled from where to start my journey to be certified Dev-401.Where can I find all the detailed Video’s/Material as per( Dev Certification Certification Guide )sequentially as I keep jumping through here and there and end up getting totally confused..

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    David Liu
    February 7, 2017 @ 6:34 pm

    I recommend using the official study guide as your sequence and jump through Salesforce documentation!

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Anonymous
February 1, 2017 @ 1:53 am

Hello David,
Greetings of the day.
Can you please provide some material on Sandbox , if any?
How do I get started?

Regards,
Soumajit Majumder

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    David Liu
    February 6, 2017 @ 8:44 pm

    Check this out!
    https://www.sfdc99.com/2013/05/13/where-to-write-code-in-salesforce/

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Iqbal
November 17, 2016 @ 7:46 am

I have visualforce page that not using standardController.I would like to include the standard Recent Items inside my page. I am able to get Name ,Id etc but how can I have the link,icon same like the standard Recent Items ?

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Anurag Krishna
August 16, 2016 @ 12:16 pm

Hi David,

These tutorials are awesome.

Could u plz provide the links for :
1. Introduction to Controllers and Extensions
2. How to use advanced Visualforce components
3. Example: How to create an interactive Visualforce page!
4. Example: How to write a test class for a Visualforce page!

thanks

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PK
April 23, 2016 @ 5:25 pm

Hi David,

These tutorials are awesome.

Could u plz provide the links for :
1. Introduction to Controllers and Extensions
2. How to use advanced Visualforce components
3. Example: How to create an interactive Visualforce page!
4. Example: How to write a test class for a Visualforce page!

thanks

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Rudi
April 2, 2016 @ 7:51 pm

Hi David,
I’m unable to click on the following guides
Beginning Visualforce:
5.Combining HTML, CSS, and Javascript in Visualforce

And all of the Advanced Visualforce:
1. Introduction to Controllers and Extensions
2. How to use advanced Visualforce components
3. Example: How to create an interactive Visualforce page!
4. Example: How to write a test class for a Visualforce page!

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bbhuyan
March 4, 2016 @ 3:42 pm

Hi David,

I need a quick guidance from you. I am from a backend development background using C# and Java. So Apex is pretty fine for me. I am having hard time in Visualforce programming as I don’t have much experience of UI development. Could you suggest how to go about learning it?

Also please suggest how much CSS and JavaScript learning is required apart from Visualforce programming. I see to learn this, I need to learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Do I need to be expert in this to learn Visualforce?

Any suggestion is really appreciated.

Thanks,
Bikram.

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    David Liu
    March 5, 2016 @ 10:31 am

    Yup – you need to be excellent at HTML, CSS, and Javascript!

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Lou Pidcock
November 11, 2015 @ 4:53 am

David, why cant we see the later tutorials? I want to start on the advanced bit :( trailhead is not as good as your site so I want to learn from you !!

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    David Liu
    November 12, 2015 @ 10:52 pm

    Thanks for the compliment! =)

    I only planned them in my head, nothing yet in writing! My timelines change so much I don’t know when these will be live!

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      Lou Pidcock
      November 13, 2015 @ 1:17 am

      ahh I see, Ok well no worries! Thanks ever so much for all your help in getting me into the coding world; your lessons have been invaluable and I have moved from being a scared of code to releasing really useful stuff to the production environment :)

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Bhuvarahan
October 20, 2015 @ 12:43 am

Hi David,

Hats off to you for such a wonderful site for salesforce learners like me. My humble request to you is that can u start a tutorial on this Flows / Visual WorkFlows and process builder as it might be very helpful for us since wwe might be able to learn how to design a complex but efficient Flows to automate certain processes like submissions for approval, sharing etc. Thank you.

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    David Liu
    October 20, 2015 @ 9:15 pm

    Strongly considering this – thank you!

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vishal
October 1, 2015 @ 12:59 am

pls reply me

1. Make a APEX page

2. Take ONE standard object, let’s say “Opportunity”

3. Write code for global search, which will look to each column to “Opportunity” object and display the matching records on same page.

4. Please note, if I add any new column to “Opportunity”, your code should consider any newly added column as well in search

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Hema
August 15, 2015 @ 9:00 pm

Thanks david for your wonderful work.can you upload the lessons in DATA LOADER.

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    David Liu
    August 17, 2015 @ 10:33 am

    You can find some good ones online for data loader – I probably won’t have any tutorials on it for this site!

    (I prefer Workbench instead BTW!)

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      hema
      August 25, 2015 @ 9:42 pm

      Pls update the Advanced visual force course material

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Avinash Kumar B
April 28, 2015 @ 7:11 pm

Thank you David for the great stuff on the page. Could you please help access the “Advanced Visual Force..”

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Anonymous
April 13, 2015 @ 9:41 pm

Hi David, Thank You very much for great help. Could you please help to access “Advanced Visualforce:”..

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Sony A
March 14, 2015 @ 4:07 am

Hi David,

Appreciate your effort in starting VisualForce series. Thank you.

Eagerly waiting for the remaining chapters on VF and Apex.

Can you also start some series on some sample Salesforce project?? It would be fun learning from you.

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    David Liu
    March 16, 2015 @ 8:14 pm

    It’s on my list of TO DOs but there is just wayyyy too much to do and so little time!

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Pradeep Kumar
February 17, 2015 @ 7:28 am

Thank you so much David for starting Visualforce… I am working my best to grab a Salesforce Dev job and all these are helping me a lot in my learning and my move from .NET to Salesforce…

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    Mohammad Abdul Khalid
    March 8, 2015 @ 7:46 am

    Thank you very much David, I was stuck at Triggers..and you gave me a kick start…May God Bless you…

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Mayank Srivastava
February 12, 2015 @ 6:15 am

Head First Java, Apex and now VisualForce. All of this is getting too much to handle but I’m not complaining! This is so much fun! Keep them coming David =)

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