OpenFolderDialog freezes the program

Here is a simple example with a OpenFolderDialog which freezes the program. Originally I tried it without the Task.Run() and instead used await for the result but that had the same issue. So I switched to this code after taking a look at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/1837

 public void SelectFolder()
        {
            var task = Task.Run(() =>
            {
                var dialog = new OpenFolderDialog()
                {
                    Title = "Select Folder...",
                    InitialDirectory = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)
                };

                var result = dialog.ShowAsync(Application.Current.MainWindow);
                if (result == null)
                {
                    return "Canceled";
                }
                else
                {
                    return "Selected";
                }
            });

            this.statusUpdate = task.GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        }

I am running on Win7 with .net core 3.0 (I also tested .net core 2.1)

[kekekeks]

It’s not the dialog freezing the program, it’s task.GetAwaiter().GetResult(); causing a deadlock. Use async/await. For more details see TAP.docx.

[rbnswartz]

For anyone that was like me trying to do this in a non-async method if you put it in a async method then you can just use ShowAsync without needing to do anything else.