Async and Await with HttpWebRequest.GetResponseAsync

Question

I am trying to use Async and Await when making a web request and am finding that it never gets past the await line. I am doing this from a Metro app, but I also verified th

Answer 1

I suspect that further up your call stack, you're either calling Wait or Result on the returned Task. This will cause a deadlock, as I describe on my blog.

Follow these best practices to avoid the deadlock:

1. Don't block on async code; use async all the way down.
2. In your "library" methods, use ConfigureAwait(false).