Async call with await in HttpClient never returns

Question

I have a call I am making from inside a xaml-based, C# metro application on the Win8 CP; this call simply hits a web service and returns JSON data.

Answer 1

Just a heads up - if you miss the await at the top level in an ASP.NET controller, and you return the task instead of the result as a response, it actually just hangs in the nested await call(s) with no errors. A silly mistake, but had I seen this post it might have saved me some time checking through the code for something odd.