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

Following on MaxP's answer, it's easy to return a value from that code, despite Knagis comment:

@{
    int x = DoAsyncStuffWrapper().Result;
}
@functions {
    async TaskDoAsyncStuffWrapper() 
    {
        await DoAsyncStuff();
    }
}