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MazA Creating a new Appexchange app from scratch
Hi everyone,
I'm sort of new to salesforce but have a limited exprience with sforce API. I like to write a small app for our company and all the articles that I see talk about it either in general or they talk about how to deploy it in salesforce. I have the following question that would really appreciate it if someone out there answered.
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and need to know how to start writing this App that's executable on Salesforce.
Do I just create a web app (aspx) and if it works assume it would work on the Appexchange network? Don't I have to follow certains rules for compatibility? Am I totally off the path here? If so please provide me with some information on how to start (prefereably asp.net) .
BTW, I've already created a complete Partner Portal that's running on our server (which was easy using Salesforce API).
Thank you
Maz
Hi MazA,
Depending on what your application needs to do, you will make a lot of decisions about how to create you appexchange app. You have to basic paths to consider. The first question is, can you create the application using only the app builder (native functionality supplied by the platform). If your the data that supports the app does not already exist in some other internal system, then you should consider creating custom objects to hold the data and attempt to create the app using the layouts and custom tabs for your UI. If not, then you will want to consider creating some part of the app using .net and aspx to composite the exiting data with whatever new data you may need using the platform.
A good starting point to understanding what it means to build apps on the appexchange is this breeze presentation.
http://salesforce.breezecentral.com/introtoappexchange