Hi everyone,

  Just started using Web API during preview 6 then my world got flipped upside when things shifted to the ASP.NET Web API!

  I wanted to get some opinions on some code I wrote usign Web API and if there were any ways I could improve it.  Basically, I don't think that I need any of the async stuff right now, and don't want to upgrade and wait for .NET 4.5 to be released.  I just want the code to run like it did during preview 6.

  So how does this code look to you guys/gals?  All it does is attempt to read a concrete type from the response stream.  For some reason, this code didn't work with the built in ReadAsAsync<T> code handling the serialization, so I instead used the Newtonsoft JSON library:

public T GetDataFromService<T>()
{
    using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
    {
        T result = default(T);
        Task<HttpResponseMessage> responseTask = null;

        httpClient.GetAsync(_endpoint).ContinueWith((requestTask) =>
        {
            responseTask = requestTask;
            HttpResponseMessage response = requestTask.Result;

            response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

            response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ContinueWith((readTask) =>
            {
                result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(readTask.Result);
            });
        });

        // HACK: My version of the await keyword
        while (responseTask == null || !responseTask.IsCompleted || result == null) { }

        return result;
    }
}