async void – How to Tame the Asynchronous Nightmare

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Problem with async void and a solution for it

You wire up an event handler using the syntax myObject.SomeEvent += SomeEventHandler, and your event handler needs to await some asynchronous code. Despite taking all the right steps and changing your method signature to get async Task added in, replacing void, you still get a compile error about your event handler not being compatible. This post tell you what to do when that happens.

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async void – How to Tame the Asynchronous Nightmare

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