Async method not returning immediately [duplicate]

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I am working from this solution: How to correctly write async method?

However, the async method does not seem to return immediately, rather it takes a while. Here is the

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("Calling DoDownload");
        var downloadTask = DoDownloadAsync();
        Debug.WriteLine("DoDownload done");
        downloadTask.Wait(); //Waits for the background task to complete before finishing. 
    }

    private static async Task DoDownloadAsync()
    {
        WebClient w = new WebClient();

        string txt = await w.DownloadStringTaskAsync("http://www.google.com/");
        Debug.WriteLine(txt);
    }
}

"DoDownload Done" is being printed before the download text, but it takes a while (I think it is waiting for the download to completely return to print it.) What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Your implementation and expectation is correct. WebClient::DownloadStringTaskAsync does have some synchronous operations before the actual underlying WebRequest::BeginGetResponse is called, but very few. The only one I see perusing through the code that might account for this proxy discovery/negotiation. Are you behind a proxy by chance?