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 would use something like this.

 public class MyViewModel
    {
            public MyDataTable Data { get; set; }
            public MyViewModel()
               {
                   loadData(() => GetData());
               }
               private async void loadData(Func load)
               {
                  try
                  {
                      MyDataTable = await Task.Run(load);
                  }
                  catch (Exception ex)
                  {
                       //log
                  }
               }
               private DataTable GetData()
               {
                    DataTable data;
                    // get data and return
                    return data;
               }
    }

This is as close to I can get for constructors.