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

calling async in constructor maybe cause deadlock, please refer to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winappswithcsharp/thread/0d24419e-36ad-4157-abb5-3d9e6c5dacf1

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2011/01/13/10115163.aspx