Building Customer Applications Using the Salesforce Toolkits for .NET April 16, 2014

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Speakers

Wade Wegner Technical Evangelist, salesforce.com @WadeWegner

Richard Seroter Director of Product Management, CenturyLink Cloud

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Agenda

§  What is it?

§  Why did we build a toolkit for .NET developers?

§  Design principles

§  Engineering process

§  Sample applications & accelerators

§  DEMOs: –  Hello Force.com API

–  Accelerators for ASP.NET, Windows Phone, and Windows Store

–  Generics, Dynamics, and Serialization … OH MY!

–  Integrating with custom APEX controllers

–  Salesforce & Twilio

–  iOS and Android apps

§  Call to Action

§  Q&A

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What is it and why should you care?

§  Native Libraries

§  NuGet Packages

§  Accelerators

§  Sample Applications

§  Documentation

GOAL: Take care of the mundane aspects involved in connecting with the Salesforce1 APIs so you can focus on building amazing .NET applications.

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Why did we build the toolkits?

Reasons

§  Large .NET developer ecosystem

§  Salesforce1 Platform APIs

§  Simplify development

§  Codify best practices

Actual Reason

§  We had nothing for .NET developers

Justifications

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Design Principles: What was most important to us?

§  Multiple & Cross Platform Support

–  Portable Class Libraries

–  Mono.NET

–  Supported platforms: .NET 4.5(.1), Windows Phone 8, Windows Store, iOS, Android, & any Mono.NET platform

§  Asynchronous by default

§  Support for dynamics and generics

§  Simple to use but extensible for advanced scenarios

§  Delivered through NuGet packages

§  Open source

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Engineering Process: How did we do it?

§  Code coverage –  Functional tests

–  Unit tests

§  Continuous integration

§  Filing and responding to Github Issues

§  Pull requests

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Sample Applications & Accelerators: Getting Started

Sample Aplications https://github.com/developerforce/Force.com-Toolkit-for-NET/tree/master/samples

§  SimpleConsole

§  WebServerOAuthFlow

§  Windows8OAuth

§  WindowsPhoneOAuth

Accelerators https://github.com/developerforce/Force.com-Toolkit-for-NET/tree/master/accelerators §  WebLogin

§  WP8Login

§  W8Login

DEMOs DEMO 1: Hello Force.com API!

DEMO 2: Building an ASP.NET MVC web site DEMO 3: Building for Windows Phone DEMO 4: Building for Windows Store

DEMO 5: Generics, Dynamics, and Serialization … OH MY! DEMO 6: Integrating with custom APEX controllers

DEMO 7: SMS and Twilio DEMO 8: Build iOS and Android applications

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Resources: Where are the bits and bytes?

§  Github: https://github.com/developerforce/Force.com- Toolkit-for-NET

§  Issues (bugs & features): https://github.com/ developerforce/Force.com-Toolkit-for-NET/issues

§  NuGet: http://www.nuget.org/profiles/DeveloperForce/

§  Blog: http://www.wadewegner.com/

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Call to Action: What are the next steps?

1.  Visit the Github repository and review the code and documentation

2.  Use the Developer Edition organization and setup a Connected App

3.  Make a clone of the repository and try out the samples

4.  Install the accelerators via NuGet

5.  Build apps!

Q & A

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Wade Wegner @WadeWegner

Richard Seroter @rseroter