Catch an exception thrown by an async void method

Question

Using the async CTP from Microsoft for .NET, is it possible to catch an exception thrown by an async method in the calling method?

public async void Foo()
{
         


        

Answer 1

Its also important to note that you will lose the chronological stack trace of the exception if you you have a void return type on an async method. I would recommend returning Task as follows. Going to make debugging a whole lot easier.

public async Task DoFoo()
    {
        try
        {
            return await Foo();
        }
        catch (ProtocolException ex)
        {
            /* Exception with chronological stack trace */     
        }
    }