Best way to convert callback-based async method to awaitable task

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Your code is short, readable and efficient, so I don’t understand why are you looking for alternatives, but I can’t think of anything. I think your approach is reasonable.

I’m also not sure why do you think that the synchronous part is okay in the original version, but you want to avoid it in the Task-based one. If you think the synchronous part might take too long, fix it for both versions of the method.

But if you want to run it asynchronously (i.e. on the ThreadPool) only in the Task version, you can use Task.Run():

public Task<string> GetStringFromUrl(string url)
{
    return Task.Run(() =>
    {
        var t = new TaskCompletionSource<string>();

        GetStringFromUrl(url, s => t.TrySetResult(s));

        return t.Task;
    });
}

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