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

Some of the answers involve creating a new public method. Without doing this, use the Lazy class:

public class ViewModel
{
    private Lazy> Data;

    async public ViewModel()
    {
        Data = new Lazy>(GetDataTask);
    }

    public ObservableCollection GetDataTask()
    {
        Task> task;

        //Create a task which represents getting the data
        return task.GetAwaiter().GetResult();
    }
}

To use Data, use Data.Value.