Question

Starting on my first Metro App and I’m hating this Async crap.

I have a JSON test file on my C: drive.

I’d like to read the file as a string without ASync and use it as my DataSource.

I’m having no luck.. It’s been 6 hours and I can’t even load this data.

Used FileOpenPicker but it uses Async for the PickSingleFileAsync()

Tried IsolatedStorage but they all use Async

Is there anything like Application.DoEvents I can use at the very least.

🙁

I need this type of function…

public string StringfromFile(string path)
{
    using(FileStream fs = File.Open(path, FileMode.Open))using(StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fs))
    string data = sr.ReadToEnd();
    return data;   
}

Answer 1

I believe you have to use async, but if you want to run synchronously, you can do this

Task<StorageFile> task = MyAsyncMethodThatGetsTheFile();
task.Wait();
StorageFile file = task.Result;