Question

I am trying to build a Metro app that can get products off a Magento installation.

When I get to the login part in Visual Studio 2010 it works fine:

string sessionId = proxy.login("user", "pass");

However, when I try the same code in Visual Studio 11, it doesn’t give me the login option, rather the loginAsync, like so:

string sessionId = proxy.loginAsync("user", "pass");

If I use this option (which has the valid parameters of the regular “login”), VS11 gives me this error:

Cannot implicitly convert type
‘System.Threading.Tasks.Task’ to
‘string’

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Answer 1

Try using the await modifier

loginResponse sessionId = await proxy.loginAsync("user", "pass");

EDIT

It looks like a lot of the APIs you’re using have gone from being synchronous to asynchronous. The asynchronous versions are coming back as Task<string> instead of simply string. Whenever that happens you have 2 options on how to get the string or whatever data out of the Task<T>.

• Use await on the expression. This is non-blocking
• Call .Result on the task. This is blocking