Is there a pattern for wrapping a synchronous API to expose methods as Async?

You can always fire off a new Task that runs in a new thread with Task.Factory. StartNew . If you need the competition notification on a non threadpool thread, I recommend using a SynchronizationContext to schedule it to a different thread.

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