Use of await in Razor views

Question

Is it possible to await on tasks in Razor .cshtml views?

By default it complains that it can only be used in methods marked with async so I

Answer 1

If you really need it, you can do this, it will be ugly, but it will work.

In View

@{  
var foo = ViewBag.foo;
var bar = ViewBag.bar;
}

In Controller

public async Task Index()
        {
            ViewBag.foo = await _some.getFoo();
            ViewBag.bar = await _some.getBar();
            return View("Index");
        }