Copy and Past in sharepoint lists

Make sure title is not required data in list settings

cursors with variables

need to have values set to the variables before declaring the cursor
i had a declaration section with out settings and this failed

installing msi - insufficient privileges to start system services

msiexec /a

example to delay change in status bar

  //only bother setting OK if it isnt set yet
               _textbox.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke((Action)(() =>
               {
                   if (!_textbox.Content.ToString().Equals("System Messages:OK"))
                   {
                            //seperate thread for OK message with delay
                            var t = Task.Run(async delegate
                            {
                                await Task.Delay(TIME_TO_WAIT_TO_CHANGE_MSG_TO_OK_IN_MS);
                                DisplayData(DisplayMessageType.Normal, "OK");
                            });
                        }
                    }
                  ));

schema issues

someone hardcoded in an old program the wrong schema in an update statement

I went ahead and creates a matching schema and put the tables in a s views (select * )

Fiddler Https Certificate issues

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Disappearing headers and footers

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