An entry point cannot be marked with the ‘async’ modifier

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The error message is exactly right: the Main() method cannot be async, because when Main() returns, the application usually ends.

If you want to make a console application that uses async, a simple solution is to create an async version of Main() and synchronously Wait() on that from the real Main():

static void Main()
{
    MainAsync().Wait();
}

static async Task MainAsync()
{
    // your async code here
}

This is one of the rare cases where mixing await and Wait() is a good idea, you shouldn’t usually do that.

Update: Async Main is supported in C# 7.1.

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