Async lock not allowed

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Looks like the problem that you have is that threads will block while acquiring the lock, so your method is not completely async. To solve this you can use SemaphoreSlim.WaitAsync

private readonly SemaphoreSlim readLock = new SemaphoreSlim(1, 1); 
public async Task UpdateDetailsAsync()
{
    //I want every request to wait their turn before requesting (using the connection) 
    //to prevent a read call from catching any data from another request
    await readLock.WaitAsync();
    try
    {
        Details details = await connection.GetDetailsAsync();
        detailsListBox.Items = details;
    }
    finally
    {
        readLock.Release();
    }
}

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