How do I get the new async semantics working in VS2017 RC?

Question

Quoting from Visual Studio 2017 RC Release Notes

Language Extensions and Analyzers

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Answer 1

There is nothing else you need to do to enable task-like returns. The issue here is that the diagonstic message for this feature hasn't been updated yet. Here is a link to the tracking issue:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/12621

Answer 2

The TasklikeAttribute attribute name turns out isn't what's implemented in VS2017 RC, that's from a different version of the proposal. What's actually implemented relies on a type System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute, which appears to work exactly the same way.

I was not able to find this documented, but I was able to find this in the Roslyn tests, for example CodeGenAsyncTests.cs:

[AsyncMethodBuilder(typeof(ValueTaskMethodBuilder))]
struct ValueTask { }
...
namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices { class AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute : System.Attribute { public AsyncMethodBuilderAttribute(System.Type t) { } } }