While attending DDD North this year, I attended a talk on avoiding deadlocks in asynchronous programming. During this talk, I was introduced to the JoinableTaskFactory.

This became strangely useful very quickly, when I encountered a problem similar to that described here. There are a couple of solutions to this question, but the least code churn is to simply make the code synchronous; however, if you do that by simply adding

.GetAwaiter().GetResult()

to the end of the async calls, you’re very likely to result in a deadlock.

One possible solution is to wrap the call using the JoinableTaskFactory, in the following way:

var jtf = new JoinableTaskFactory(new JoinableTaskContext());
var result = jtf.Run<DataResult>(() => \_myClass.GetDataAsync());

This allows the task to return on the same synchronisation context without causing a deadlock.

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visualstudio.threading.joinabletaskfactory

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33913836/how-to-render-a-partial-view-asynchronously