Can constructors be async?

Question

I have a project where I\'m trying to populate some data in a constructor:

public class ViewModel
{
    public ObservableCollection Data { get;          


        

Answer 1

I use this easy trick.

public sealed partial class NamePage
{
  private readonly Task _initializingTask;

  public NamePage()
  {
    _initializingTask = Init();
  }

  private async Task Init()
  {
    /*
    Initialization that you need with await/async stuff allowed
    */
  }
}