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The single-threaded nature is not being violated. The compilation warnings in your project makes the source of the issue clear. In particular: This async method lacks 'await' operators and will run synchronously. Consider using the 'await' operator to await non-blocking API calls, or 'await Task.Run(...)' to do CPU-bound work on a background thread.

The method async Task Call_A_ToTemp() never awaits the call to grain B. Instead, it returns immediately after issuing the call. Because the Task returned by Call_A_ToTemp() is immediately completed, another call is allowed to execute on the grain. Once grain.CallA() completes, the continuation (ContinueWith(...)) will execute on the grain's TaskScheduler as soon as possible (eg, while the grain is awaiting another call or sitting idle).

Instead, if the call was awaited or if async was removed from the method and the code changed to return the grain.CallA().ContinueWith(...) call then the expected behavior will be observed. I.e, changing the code to this will give you the expected result: