crawl space of programming

Some actions in SharePoint (e.g. executing querys) can take a while. You want the user to not do any action or even change the data while your process is running. So you need the wait dialog that SharePoint is displaying some time. Calling the dialog is pretty easy. All you need is a line of code.

Of course you have once updated a SharePoint listitem out of the list view. To display the results you've updated the whole page. But you do not need to. With this simple statement you can update the view without any redirect or refreshing of the page:

In my last post  I extended the view of a list. The goal was to add the unit of measurement next to a numeric value. Now I want to extend it by adding the unit into the forms (new, edit and display) of this list. This is how the form usually looks like: At first we need to write the code.