Update UI element in Universal Application on Windows-8.1 - xaml

Question

I have a TextBlock on my Windows 8.1 application:
<TextBlock x:Name="some" Text="" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
And I have a code:
some.Text = "example 1";
// working with web service
some.Text = "example 2";
// working with database
When I launch my code I see only "example 1" message. The message "example 2" I can see only after database operation complete.
Is there any way on Windows 8.1 to redraw/refresh/update UI element?
Update:
Here is database operation:
foreach(var record in records)
{
SqliteController.InsertRecord(record);
}
....
public void async InsertRecord(Inspection record)
{
connection.InsertAsync(inspection);
}

Answer 1

Your UI thread seems to be blocked, thus it isn't updeted right away. I've not seen all the code, but from this what you have shown seems that connection.InsertAsync(inspection); is an asynchronous operation. Probably in this situation it may be sufficient just to await your procedure:
foreach (var record in records)
{
await SqliteController.InsertRecord(record);
}
You can also think of redirecting heavy job to other thread, for example like this:
Task.Run(() =>
{
foreach (var record in records)
SqliteController.InsertRecord(record);
});
You may also think of using Paraller.ForEach to speed up your operation.
As for asynchronous programming you will find many usefull information at MSDN and Stephen Cleary's blog.