So much has been promised about the Metadata Dependency API but not even that will find everything everywhere so I've given up on that before it's even released (Update: It is still nowhere to be seen, and seems to have gone to the dead pool). If I'm searching for a field name I know is in my org somewhere, I want to see it everywhere, not just in code.

Backup the Metadata into Bitbucket or Github using Git.įar too many examples of using Metadata just start with downloading a few classes or triggers, but NOPE, we want it ALL.

Download ALL your metadata from a Sandbox.

So the purpose of this exploration is to: (Edit: This is now the third time I am installing, so I will follow my own instructions and update as needed).

Tweet I had just about every problem under the sun setting up my VS Code environment so I'm now going to uninstall everything and start again so I can try to explain it. So if I get too techy too quickly please pull me up. But, alas, some of this might be baked in to me already as I started using unix 30+ years ago (even though I'm a non developer!). I'm going to TRY to start from an understanding of you know what the CMD prompt is in Windows and that's about it. No I'm not going to cover Mac - there is too much out there on how to do things on Mac, but not enough on Windows. This is about starting from plain vanilla Windows 10 (or now Windows 11). Or even from the very introductory Trailhead “In a command window, enter SFDX”. Now, I want this to be for non developers, and about getting started with VS Code from the ground up, because I just see so many posts saying things like 'just do npm install' or 'open bash' or other posts where they start from a fully functioning VS Code installation. (Also see Following the SFDX Trailhead Trails for how I did trying to learn SFDX which prompted me to start with this page first). Now that MavensMate is dead (RIP) and VSCode is now the official IDE for Salesforce development it is time to start learning VS Code. A while back I created a page for MavensMate and Git for Non Developers.

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