Fire and forget async method in asp.net mvc

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First off, let me point out that “fire and forget” is almost always a mistake in ASP.NET applications. “Fire and forget” is only an acceptable approach if you don’t care whether DeleteFooAsync actually completes.

If you’re willing to accept that limitation, I have some code on my blog that will register tasks with the ASP.NET runtime, and it accepts both synchronous and asynchronous work.

You can write a one-time wrapper method for logging exceptions as such:

private async Task LogExceptionsAsync(Func<Task> code)
{
  try
  {
    await code();
  }
  catch(Exception exception)
  {
    m_log.Error("Call failed: " + exception.ToString());
  }
}

And then use the BackgroundTaskManager from my blog as such:

BackgroundTaskManager.Run(() => LogExceptionsAsync(() => DeleteFooAsync()));

Alternatively, you can keep TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException and just call it like this:

BackgroundTaskManager.Run(() => DeleteFooAsync());

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