How to use async with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0?

Question

I want to add async support to current VS 2010 .NET 4.0 C# project

I have found:

• Visual Studio Async CTP - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/deta

Answer 1

I am working on something similar (I'm writing a RestApiLibrary in VS2010, that I borrowed from a VS2017 project) and found the following URL to be helpful.

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Introduction-to-HttpClient-4a2d9cee

The main thing that helped was:

        // Send a request asynchronously continue when complete 
        client.GetAsync(_address).ContinueWith( 
            (requestTask) => 
            { 
                // Get HTTP response from completed task. 
                HttpResponseMessage response = requestTask.Result; 

                // Check that response was successful or throw exception 
                response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode(); 

The 'ContinueWith' method, and the '.Result' property seemed to be key to (sort of using) an async function in VS2010. Note, I doubt this behaves in the traditional async way, but at least this way you can use async methods in VS2010.

Hope this helps!