Breakpoint "skipped" when debugging async code

Question

I have some code that is returning the following exception ...

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I am trying to delve in further to get to the cause, but when I set a break-point after the calling code the break-point seems to get passed by ..

PaymentProcessor pp = new PaymentProcessor();
List<string> results = await pp.ProcessPayment();
foreach (string result in results)  // Break-point set here
{
   ...
}

I wanted to see if the result of the method call returned any results. I think it has to do with the method making use of async await. If the break-point is being skipped because of the async method how do I stop it? I use the async code to free up the UI thread.

More details ....

The code where the exception bubbles up is ..

var paymentTask = GetPaymentUpdates();
paymentTask.Wait(); // Object not set exception occurs here.

Answer 1

That code would be skipped is if the exception was being thrown in the ProcessPayment method and thus it never reaches that code.