It looks to me, from your example, like you're doing all the work before the "Begin" call finishes; that's a common mistake I found while learning the async pattern.
To make things asynchronous you generally compose it together with other things that are asynchronous. If you are only doing synchronous things with your asynchronous methods then it doesn't make any sense to use the async pattern. For example, if all your code does is put work on the thread pool you haven't accomplished anything because you've handed back the thread to the thread pool by moving your code asynchronous but stolen it right back from ASP.NET by launching your work there.
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