Champion "Await in Catch and Finally"

[gafter]

VB doesn't allow this today and C# does. Seems like it could be a pain if APIs require this pattern a lot.

There are special design considerations required for VB as in VB it is permitted to Goto from the Catch block back into the Try block. This would complicate the state machine rewrite a bit:

dim retryCount = 0
try
retry:
catch ex as Exception When retryCount < 3
retryCount += 1
goto retry
end try

[vbcodec]

Will it be ready for VS 2017 RTM ?
On roslyn repo it was proposal for quite some time

[gafter]

We are "done" with the compiler for VS2017 RTM and the work for this has not started.

[vbcodec]

I am disappointed. This is most missing feature. Will it be avalable in some VS 2017 update ?

[gafter]

@vbcodec We do not make product announcements on github. Usually product announcements and plans would be found on the Visual Studio Blog.

[AnthonyDGreen]

@vbcodec we do have the ability to ship it in an update, though as Neal says, we can't commit to if it would ship in an update or which update it would ship in. We don't usually commit to features in updates this early given that our highest priorities for them are bug fixes, performance improvements, and reacting to other feedback from the RTW.

[KlausLoeffelmann]

So, what is the current status on this?
Has this discussed lately in any LDMs?

[AnthonyDGreen]

There is nothing to discuss. There feature is self explanatory. There may be questions that come up during implementation but there's nothing to design at this point.

[KlausLoeffelmann]

With "discuss"I mean, has it somehow prioritized that an actual implementation will begin?

[AnthonyDGreen]

We have not announced a schedule for any features post 15.3. That process is on-going and the recent activity on this repo are specifically motivated to get more transparency into the backlog. When that process produces a schedule we're confident in enough to share it'll be published here and on the Roslyn repo.