Exception in async methods is not caught

Question

The following code does not catch my OperationCancelException which is thrown by calling ct.ThrowIfCancellationRequested.

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Answer 1

In your first example the exception is not caught because it does not occure before leaving the try/catch block. If you want to catch it there you need to wait/await it there exactly like you do in the second example. If you do not await the returned task the method continues execution and leaves the try/catch block before the exception actually occures...

If you want to catch the exception "out of band" you can also register to TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException (this event is called if a task is throwing an exception which is nowhere caught) to get all uncaught exceptions or monitor the tasks Exception property. May also check out THIS answer.