{"id":107,"date":"2013-01-20T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:50:03","slug":"apex-and-visualforce-syntax-highlighting-in-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/apex-and-visualforce-syntax-highlighting-in-notepad\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex and Visualforce syntax highlighting in Notepad++"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you prefer to write your Apex and Visualforce code outside Salesforce.com or Force.com<\/strong> IDE – you may find tough time in finding the right code editor. I have not come across any other code editor that supports programming languages Apex and Visualforce.<\/p>\n

Considering the fast growth of programmers working on Apex and Visualforce I am sure very soon we will have code editor programs supporting the Apex and Visualforce.<\/p>\n

Using Notepad ++ as Apex and Visualforce code editor<\/h4>\n

If you love working on Notepad++ you can use it for the Apex and Visualforce syntax highlighting.<\/p>\n

Just by copying and pasting it may not work as Notepad++ still does not recognizes Apex and Visualforce as a programming language. You will need to turn on Java and HTML as language to view Apex and Visualforce respectively.<\/p>\n

Turn on Java to view Apex<\/h5>\n

\"Turn<\/p>\n

Turn on HTML to view Visualforce<\/h5>\n

\"Turn<\/p>\n

Apex Class in Notepad++<\/h5>\n

Here is how the Apex Class looks in Notepad++<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Apex Trigger in Notepad++<\/h5>\n

Here is how an Apex trigger looks in Notepad++<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Visualforce page in Notepad++<\/h5>\n

Here is how a Visualforce page looks in Notepad++<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

You can also create a User Defined Language file for Apex and VisualForce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you prefer to write your Apex and Visualforce code outside Salesforce.com or Force.com IDE – you may find tough time in finding the right code editor. I have not come across any other code editor that supports programming languages Apex and Visualforce. Considering the fast growth of programmers working on Apex and Visualforce I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[88,87],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apex","category-visualforce","tag-salesforce-development","tag-salesforce-programming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}