Visual Force now widely available

May 7, 2008

First announced last September at Dreamforce 2007, Visual Force, Salesforce.com’s new User-Interface-as-a-Service, is now widely available with the Summer ‘08 release. A key part of the Force.com Platform, Visualforce gives developers complete control over the Salesforce user interface to create any user interface for any Force.com application and extend it to virtually any device.

For those of you who saw the original demo in ‘07 Visual Force looks quite promising. The idea that you can now create applications for any kind of device (mobile phones, hand helds, tablets etc) without having to wory about the hardware version, is quite amazing.

From the official release:

Salesforce.com also announced the availability of Visualforce Components today, new Visualforce technology that gives developers the power to add, remove, and reassemble the basic building blocks of the Salesforce UI. With Visualforce Components, ISVs and IT departments can manipulate the components of the Salesforce UI, add their own custom-built components or bring in ISV-built components to quickly build business applications on Force.com that are as easy to use as the best Web 2.0 apps. The availability of Visualforce signals a new milestone for the Platform-as-a-Service industry, providing unprecedented control over the user interface of business applications delivered entirely via the cloud.

Visualforce: Design and Deliver Any User Experience Anywhere As a Service

A breakthrough for the Platform-as-a-Service industry, Visualforce is a new technology for developing powerful user interfaces (UIs) that can be used to enhance the standard Salesforce SaaS applications or to create custom PaaS applications on Force.com. Visualforce includes all the resources developers need to build rich, interactive applications and user experiences for a variety of audiences, applications, and devices. More than 4,000 developers have already created more than 11,000 custom interfaces in the Visualforce developer preview program.

Combined with the powerful logic and workflow intelligence provided by Apex Code, Visualforce offers the flexibility to meet the requirements of applications that feature many different types of users on a variety of devices. Visualforce uses the best of Internet technology, including HTML, AJAX and Adobe Flex, for business applications, making them as innovative and as effective as their consumer Web counterparts.

Written by Adam Killam · Filed Under Breaking News