Capturing Exceptions on async operations

Question

I\'m reading up more about async here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh873173(v=vs.110).aspx

Going through this example:

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Answer 1

You're right. It is not necessary. You could replace it with

if (recommendation.Result) 
    BuyStock(symbol);

Also note that await will not await(will not set continuation) when completed task is given. It will just execute synchronously in that case as a optimization. I guess author leverages that optimization.

If you ask why author wrote that way, May be consistency? only he knows!.