Async property in c#

Question

In my windows 8 application there is a global class where there are a few static properties like:

public class EnvironmentEx
{
     public static Us         


        

Answer 1

I suggest you use asynchronous lazy initialization.

public static readonly AsyncLazy AppRootFolder =
    new AsyncLazy(() =>
    {
      return KnownFolders.DocumentsLibrary                    
          .CreateFolderAsync("theApp", CreationCollisionOption.OpenIfExists)
          .AsTask();
    });

You can then await it directly:

var rootFolder = await EnvironmentEx.AppRootFolder;