3 Ways to Retrieve Metadata from Salesforce Org into VS Code | How to retrieve Apex /LWC in VS Code?

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Hey Everyone,
In this video we are going to see how to retrieve metadata from salesforce org to vs code. Metadata in salesforce is any data that is about some other data. For example - Account object is the metadata for accounts data or records. Some other examples of metadata can be - Custom fields, LWC, Apex Code, Apex Triggers, Permission Sets, etc.
Here we are going to discuss 3 ways to retrieve metadata .The core concepts would be the same for all these methods.
Method 1 - Using Manifest Project and Package.xml file Manual Editing
Method 2 - Use an extension to generate the same package.xml file
Method 3 - Use Org Browser in VS Code to directly download the metadata
Before using any of the above options, we must first create a Salesforce project with manifest and authorize the target org in VS Code.
Do check out the previous video here :
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[@ayushmanshahu9765]

Thank you

[@salesforceWithParamita]

Excellent

[@SalesforceV]

Thanks Paramita. Glad it helped!

[@amirulluqman3378]

Nice tutorial as this help me to get know how to retrieve metadata to vscode. Thank you for sharing!

[@SalesforceV]

Thanks for the kind words 😊

[@chatonline8916]

Nice video!

[@varshajethwani7726]

I have a question here : I want have an option to sync metadata between our production instance and our existing Gitlab repository so that we can easily include release changes done by Salesforce but also changes done in production via se automations for example: as the new year approaches the year field is updated by scheduler class and adds up the new year in the picklist, but this change is not reflected in Gitlab repository, hence to avoid inconsistency need to sync between production and gitlab. What should be the best practice approach?

[@salesforceWithParamita]

excellent video. Thanks

[@SalesforceV]

Thank you for the kind words Paramita 😊

[@medevika4774]

How to deploy to target org

[@SalesforceV]

Hey, thanks for watching the video. You can deploy components to target org by simply right clicking and selecting deploy option from vs code.