Question

I am trying to use async and await and my problem is that it wont wait for the background process to finish. Maybe you are wondering why don’t I just run the application synchronously?
I’m trying finish a part of my task ASAP and the rest can be awaited as shown in this example.
Thank you for the help guys! =)

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Run();
        //Problem or Maybe Not? Needs this 
        //So that my application won't close immediately
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    private async static void Run()
    {
        Task<bool> TBool = ProcessRecords();

        if (await TBool)
        {
            //Problem #1 This Line Doesn't Show
            Console.WriteLine("End of Code");
            //SHould be safe to close the application by Now
            //But goes through here not waiting for the return
            //of the last process.

            Environment.Exit(0);

            //My temporary solution is to indicate a Task.Delay(80000)
            //to make sure that all the logging in the background
            //are all done. I dont know if there is a function that shows
            //that there are task running on the background or any 
            //other workaroung will help. =) thanks
        }

    }

    private async static Task<bool> ProcessRecords()
    {
        Task newTask = null;
        //Loop through all the records and send
        //all the records to MQ ASAP
        for (int x = 0; x < 10; x++)
        {
            //I wont wait for this Task so
            //I can send the next record
            newTask = SendToMQ(x);
        }
        //I only need to wait for the last Task to
        //indicate that I can exit the system
        //as soon as it finish
        //Problem #2 The Console.WriteLine doesnt show the last record.
        await newTask;
        return true;
    }

    private async static Task SendToMQ(int count)
    {
        //actual sending of message (Important)
        await Task.Delay(1000);
        //Process of Logging Connect to DB etc, (Not so Important, but takes most of the time)
        await LoggingRecord();
        Console.Clear();
        Console.WriteLine("Done Processing  " + count.ToString() + " records");
    }

    //Logging of each record
    private async static Task LoggingRecord()
    {
        await Task.Delay(5000);
        //Problem #3 This Line Doesn't Show
        Console.WriteLine("Last Log Finished");
    }
}

Answer 1

You should use await whenever possible:

await Run();

However, in this case you cannot, so you must use Wait

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Run().Wait();

    //Problem or Maybe Not? Needs this 
    //So that my application won't close immediately
    //Console.ReadLine();
}

// note the return type is Task
private async static Task Run()
{
...
}

In ProcessRecords() you have the following line – I am not quite sure what you mean, so I didn’t address it:

//Problem #2 The Console.WriteLine doesnt show the last record.

The above prints out

Done Processing  9 records
End of Code