Can constructors be async?

Question

I have a project where I\'m trying to populate some data in a constructor:

public class ViewModel
{
    public ObservableCollection Data { get;          


        

Answer 1

I was just wondering why we can't call await from within a constructor directly.

I believe the short answer is simply: Because the .Net team has not programmed this feature.

I believe with the right syntax this could be implemented and shouldn't be too confusing or error prone. I think Stephen Cleary's blog post and several other answers here have implicitly pointed out that there is no fundamental reason against it, and more than that - solved that lack with workarounds. The existence of these relatively simple workarounds is probably one of the reasons why this feature has not (yet) been implemented.