Synchronously waiting for an async operation, and why does Wait() freeze the program here

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The await inside your asynchronous method is trying to come back to the UI thread.

Since the UI thread is busy waiting for the entire task to complete, you have a deadlock.

Moving the async call to Task.Run() solves the issue.
Because the async call is now running on a thread pool thread, it doesn’t try to come back to the UI thread, and everything therefore works.

Alternatively, you could call StartAsTask().ConfigureAwait(false) before awaiting the inner operation to make it come back to the thread pool rather than the UI thread, avoiding the deadlock entirely.

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