Async await in Windows Phone web access APIs

Question

Is there support for the async/await pattern in WP8?

I need to get XML from a web-based API and it looks like that WebClient or WebRequest

Answer 1

Is there support for the async/await pattern in WP8?

Just to clarify, there is full C# 5.0 support on Windows Phone 8. The WinRT APIs largely depend on async/await, such as syncing to PeopleHub, or using the I/O APIs.

But the Silverlight and old .NET APIs have not been updated to use async/await for classes like the WebClient.