I may be missing something
You are.
what is the difference between doing
Task.Wait
andawait task
?
You order your lunch from the waiter at the restaurant. A moment after giving your order, a friend walks in and sits down next to you and starts a conversation. Now you have two choices. You can ignore your friend until the task is complete — you can wait until your soup arrives and do nothing else while you are waiting. Or you can respond to your friend, and when your friend stops talking, the waiter will bring you your soup.
Task.Wait
blocks until the task is complete — you ignore your friend until the task is complete. await
keeps processing messages in the message queue, and when the task is complete, it enqueues a message that says “pick up where you left off after that await”. You talk to your friend, and when there is a break in the conversation the soup arrives.