C# How to start an async method without await its complete?

Question

Sometimes I need to start an async job which works very slow. I don\'t care if that job success and I need to continue working on my current thread.

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Answer 1

As Amadan told in the comment that, you need to remove async from your function. then it will stop giving you the warning.

// This method has to be async
public Response SomeHTTPAction()
{
     // Some logic...
     // ...
     // Send an Email but don't care if it successfully sent.
     Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>  _emailService.SendEmailAsync());
     return MyRespond();
}

and Task.Factory.StartNew(() => _emailService.SendEmailAsync()); will indeed work on a new thread.