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You can build user interfaces on Force.com in two ways: Use Visualforce, a complete component-based framework for building and deploying custom user interfaces, or use the dynamic, metadata-driven, automatically generated user interfaces and page layouts.

Overview

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  An Introduction to Visualforce A comprehensive technical introduction to Visualforce, covering all aspects of the technology.
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  User Interfaces on Force.com A two minute screencast.
  
  

Official Documentation

Version 18.0 for Spring '10: HTML | PDF | Earlier Versions

Version 17.0 for Winter '10: HTML | PDF | Earlier Versions

Reference for Visualforce.

Basic Tutorial | Advanced Tutorial

A quick start tutorial introduction to the Visualforce markup language.

Print it out and hang it on your wall for a handy quick reference.

Resources

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  Visualforce Cheat Sheet: A concise reference guide to Visualforce.
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  An Introduction to Visualforce:A comprehensive technical introduction to Visualforce, covering all aspects of the technology.
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  Security Tips for Apex and Visualforce Developers
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  Force.com Tutorial: An Introduction to Visualforce: This article provides a series of tutorials that contain enough material for you to get started building your own applications utilizing Visualforce.
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  Using Browser Technologies in Visualforce - Provides an overview of how standard browser technologies, including AJAX and Flex, relate to Visualforce pages. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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  Force.com for ASP.NET Developers: This article provides a dive deep into using the Force.com Platform Web Services to access your Salesforce.com data from within a Visualforce page or from within a Microsoft ASP.NET Web form.
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  Build Any UI for Any App Using Visualforce: This presentation from Dreamforce '08 shows how to customize and componentize common UI elements and easily add them to Visualforce Pages.
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  Visualforce Controllers and Components: Building Reusable UI Building Blocks: This technical introduction to Visualforce includes code walkthroughs and covers topics such as components and common use cases.
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  Force.com as a Google Visualization Data Source: Expose data on Force.com to support the Google Visualization API.
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  Whitepaper: Visualforce A very high-level overview of Visualforce, which looks at its place on the platform and interactions with other technologies.
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  Visualforce Technical Overview This screencast presentation explains Visualforce, and walks you through the basics of how you can use it to build powerful user experiences into your on-demand apps.
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  Introducing Visualforce - Create Any User Interface as a Service Get in-depth coverage provided by top salesforce.com technical experts.
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  Visualforce and Visualforce Components Demo This 5-minute screencast shows the power of embedding default and custom Visualforce Components to create a dynamic user interface.

Discussion Boards

• Visualforce Board
• General Development Board (for Page Layouts)

Code Samples

Here's a list of code samples to help you get started.

• Extended Print Preview - How to use Visualforce to create extended print previews
• Dynamic Edit Page - How to augments another component, giving it some Ajax behavior for the purpose of controlling the visibility of a section of the given Visualforce page dynamically as the user modifies values in a form.

• Wrapper Class-Use a wrapper class to incorporate checkboxes into a data table
• Sorting Tables- An example that shows you how to sort lists that contain Standard or Custom objects and create a sortable table