Getting Started with Apex Development on the Salesforce Force.com Platform using the Force.com IDE
Getting Started with Apex Development on the Salesforce Force.com Platform using the Force.com IDE Below I will describe the steps to getting started using the SFDC plugin in Eclipse to start developing custom Apex classes and Visualforce pages for Salesforce. This guide does not focus on configuration or "click" based development. You may prefer to use the built-in developer console instead of the Eclipse IDE. Download and Install the Eclipse IDE Latest version of Eclipse as of 4/25/2014: Eclipse Standard 4.3.2 for Windows 64 bit Download Page: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Install the Force.com Plugin for Eclipse From the top menu, Click Help > Install New Software Install the Force.com Plugin Click Add Under the Add Repository message Set the Name to "Force.com IDE" and Set the Location to " http://media.developerforce.com/force-ide/eclipse42 " then ...