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

If you need to use async in your function you can also use a discard variable and don't use await. This is also usefull if you have multiple async function calls but you don't need to wait for all of them.

public async function(){
    var tmp = await asyncfunction();
    ...
    _ = _httpClient.PutAsync(url, content);
    ...
}