According to the Microsoft doc[1] it is convention for async to return a Task but not a requirement. Since the return type of Task tells you a method is expect

According to the Microsoft doc[1] it is convention for async to return a Task but not a requirement. Since the return type of Task tells you a method is expected to be used asynchronously, also encoding that in the name seems somewhat redundant. I guess you have to use a different name because of static typing so Async is as good a suffix as any. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh156528.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh156528.asp...