How do I kick off an entity stored procedure in EF6 async and not wait for a return?

Question

I\'d like to just punt a call over to the SQL Server and not wait for a return. I have an imported Entity Function from a Stored Procedure that I\'d like to call asynchronously

Answer 1

Ahh. I was in Entity Framework land too long. Thanks for the tips. Here's what worked for me. Do you see any problems with this?

    /// 

    /// kicks off the LONG RUNNING calculations on a budget to regenerate all pre-cooked numbers.
    /// 
    /// Budget Id
    public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task RecalculateBudgetNumbersAsync(int budgetId)
    {
        await System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Factory.StartNew(() => RecalculateBudgetNumbers(budgetId));
    }

    public static void RecalculateBudgetNumbers(int budgetId)
    {
        //this is static so we don't use the unit of work..
        using (BMTContext ctx = new BMTContext())
        {
            ctx.UpdateLifeOfBudgetNumbers(budgetId);                
            ctx.UpdateIntervalNumbers(budgetId);                
            ctx.UpdateIntervalActivityNumbers(budgetId);
            ctx.UpdateLifeOfBudgetActivityNumbers(budgetId);
        }
    }

And my test (I'm in Visual Studio 2012 so I can do an async test).

    [TestMethod]
    public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task RecalculateBudgetNumbersAsyncTest()
    {
        System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch timer = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
        timer.Start();
        await repo.RecalculateBudgetNumbersAsync(budgetId);

        System.Console.WriteLine("RecalculateBudgetNumbersAsyncTest milliseconds: " + timer.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString());
    }

After suggestions from Matt Smith and Usr, I changed RecalculateBudgetNumbersAsync to this. I hope this is what they meant:

    public void RecalculateBudgetNumbersAsync(int budgetId)
    {
        System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Factory.StartNew(() => RecalculateBudgetNumbers(budgetId));
    }