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

If I already did this: Task recommendation = await Task.WhenAny(recommendations); Why do this: if (await recommendation) BuyStock(symbol);

Because Task.WhenAny returns a Task> and you want to unwrap the outter Task to retrieve the resulting bool. You could do the same by accessing the Task.Result property of the returned Task