Boling it right down to the fundementals what you are actually asking for is to be able to make a synchronous call into an API that performs an asynchronous task but only returns when that asynchronous task is complete. To state it another way you want to re-combine the Begin and End phases of an asynchronous operation back into a single atomic synchronous operation.
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