Force Synchronous execution of async method

Question

Hi

I've a method like this

        public static async Task<string> GetXmlResponse(string url)       
 {         
   string data = null;           
using (var client = Connector.GetWebClient())            
{
                data = await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(url);            
}
return data;}

Now one caller of this method should force that this method executes synchronously.

in the given scenario the download takes less then one second.

Now I tried

       

var task = GetXmlResponse(url)   ;
 task.Wait();

But then the code waits for an unlimited time :-(

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Hi Gentlehag-

I assume this is in a UI app of some kind?  Can you try changing this:

await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(url);

to be this:

await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(url).ConfigureAwait(false);

and see if that fixes your deadlock?