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Is there a way to call an async method within a catch block?

At the moment I have an application which logs exceptions with an async / awaited method but I can't put this in a catch block because I'm told: 

The 'await' operator cannot occur inside a catch or finally block of a try-statement, inside the block of a lock-statment or in an unsafe context.

At the moment I'm having to assign the exception to a variable inside the catch block and then call my await logException() afterwards.

Whilst this isn't the end of the world, it seems like there should / could be another / better way.

Any thoughts?

dougajmcdonald
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Currently in C#5, no, there's no way to do it directly.

In C# 6 / Roselyn, it's already implemented.

rducom
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