How to create an async method in C# 4 according to the best practices?

Question

Consider the following code snippet:

public static Task FetchAsync()
{
    string url = \"http://www.example.com\", message = \"Hello World!\";         


        

Answer 1

If async related C# 4.0 code is huge and ugly - there is a chance that it's implemented properly. If it's nice and short, then most likely it's not ;)

..though, you may get it look more attractive by creating extension methods on WebRequest, Stream classes and cleanup the main method.

P.S.: I hope C# 5.0 with it's new async keyword and library will be released soon.

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx