How do I wait until Task is finished in C#?

Question

Your Print method likely needs to wait for the continuation to finish (ContinueWith returns a task which you can wait on). Otherwise the second ReadAsStringAsync finishes, the method returns (before result is assigned in the continuation). Same problem exists in your send method. Both need to wait on the continuation to consistently get the results you want. Similar to below

private static string Send(int id)
{
    Task<HttpResponseMessage> responseTask = client.GetAsync("aaaaa");
    string result = string.Empty;
    Task continuation = responseTask.ContinueWith(x => result = Print(x));
    continuation.Wait();
    return result;
}

private static string Print(Task<HttpResponseMessage> httpTask)
{
    Task<string> task = httpTask.Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    string result = string.Empty;
    Task continuation = task.ContinueWith(t =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Result: " + t.Result);
        result = t.Result;
    });
    continuation.Wait();  
    return result;
}

It waits for client.GetAsync("aaaaa");, but doesn't wait for result = Print(x)

Try responseTask.ContinueWith(x => result = Print(x)).Wait()

--EDIT--

Task responseTask = Task.Run(() => { 
    Thread.Sleep(1000); 
    Console.WriteLine("In task"); 
});
responseTask.ContinueWith(t=>Console.WriteLine("In ContinueWith"));
responseTask.Wait();
Console.WriteLine("End");

Above code doesn't guarantee the output:

In task
In ContinueWith
End

But this does (see the newTask)

Task responseTask = Task.Run(() => { 
    Thread.Sleep(1000); 
    Console.WriteLine("In task"); 
});
Task newTask = responseTask.ContinueWith(t=>Console.WriteLine("In ContinueWith"));
newTask.Wait();
Console.WriteLine("End");

A clean example that answers the Title

string output = "Error";
Task task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
    output = "Complete";
});

task.Wait();
Console.WriteLine(output);