[c#] How to implement reCaptcha for ASP.NET MVC?

An async version for MVC 5 (i.e. avoiding ActionFilterAttribute, which is not async until MVC 6) and reCAPTCHA 2

ExampleController.cs

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    [HttpPost]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public async Task<ActionResult> ContactSubmit(
        [Bind(Include = "FromName, FromEmail, FromPhone, Message, ContactId")]
        ContactViewModel model)
    {
        if (!await RecaptchaServices.Validate(Request))
        {
            ModelState.AddModelError(string.Empty, "You have not confirmed that you are not a robot");
        }
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
           ...

ExampleView.cshtml

@model MyMvcApp.Models.ContactViewModel

@*This is assuming the master layout places the styles section within the head tags*@
@section Styles {
    @Styles.Render("~/Content/ContactPage.css")
    <script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js'></script>
}

@using (Html.BeginForm("ContactSubmit", "Home",FormMethod.Post, new { id = "contact-form" }))
{
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    ...
    <div class="form-group">
      @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Message) 
      @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.Message, new { @class = "form-control", @cols = "40", @rows = "3" })
      @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Message)
    </div>

    <div class="row">
      <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey='@System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["RecaptchaClientKey"]'></div>
    </div>

    <div class="row">
      <input type="submit" id="submit-button" class="btn btn-default" value="Send Your Message" />
    </div>
}

RecaptchaServices.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Web;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

namespace MyMvcApp.Services
{
    public class RecaptchaServices
    {
        //ActionFilterAttribute has no async for MVC 5 therefore not using as an actionfilter attribute - needs revisiting in MVC 6
        internal static async Task<bool> Validate(HttpRequestBase request)
        {
            string recaptchaResponse = request.Form["g-recaptcha-response"];
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(recaptchaResponse))
            {
                return false;
            }
            using (var client = new HttpClient { BaseAddress = new Uri("https://www.google.com") })
            {
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
                {
                    new KeyValuePair<string, string>("secret", ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["RecaptchaSecret"]),
                    new KeyValuePair<string, string>("response", recaptchaResponse),
                    new KeyValuePair<string, string>("remoteip", request.UserHostAddress)
                });
                var result = await client.PostAsync("/recaptcha/api/siteverify", content);
                result.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
                string jsonString = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                var response = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RecaptchaResponse>(jsonString);
                return response.Success;
            }
        }

        [DataContract]
        internal class RecaptchaResponse
        {
            [DataMember(Name = "success")]
            public bool Success { get; set; }
            [DataMember(Name = "challenge_ts")]
            public DateTime ChallengeTimeStamp { get; set; }
            [DataMember(Name = "hostname")]
            public string Hostname { get; set; }
            [DataMember(Name = "error-codes")]
            public IEnumerable<string> ErrorCodes { get; set; }
        }

    }
}

web.config

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <!--recaptcha-->
    <add key="RecaptchaSecret" value="***secret key from https://developers.google.com/recaptcha***" />
    <add key="RecaptchaClientKey" value="***client key from https://developers.google.com/recaptcha***" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>