Use of await in Razor views

Question

Is it possible to await on tasks in Razor .cshtml views?

By default it complains that it can only be used in methods marked with async so I

Answer 1

No, that's not possible and you shouldn't need to do it anyway. Razor views should contain markup and at most some helper call. async/await belongs to your backend logic.

Answer 2

Following on MaxP's answer, it's easy to return a value from that code, despite Knagis comment:

@{
    int x = DoAsyncStuffWrapper().Result;
}
@functions {
    async Task<int>DoAsyncStuffWrapper() 
    {
        await DoAsyncStuff();
    }
}