Calling async method synchronously

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You can access the Result property of the task, which will cause your thread to block until the result is available:

string code = GenerateCodeAsync().Result;

Note: In some cases, this might lead to a deadlock: Your call to Result blocks the main thread, thereby preventing the remainder of the async code to execute. You have the following options to make sure that this doesn’t happen:

This does not mean that you should just mindlessly add .ConfigureAwait(false) after all your async calls! For a detailed analysis on why and when you should use .ConfigureAwait(false), see the following blog post:

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