VS11 Beta Does Not Recognize async/await in Silverlight by djarekg

Thanks to everyone for your patience - we know how excited you've been to try out Visual Studio 11 Beta!

To resolve this issue for Silverlight 5 and .NET 4.0, we're happy to announce the Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11! This pack lets your Visual Studio 11 Beta projects that target Silverlight 5 or .NET 4.0 use the Async language support introduced in C# 5 and Visual Basic 11. Simply remove any references to the Async CTP libraries and add a reference to the Async Targeting Pack NuGet package, and you're good to go!

For more information on how to reference this NuGet package in your Visual Studio 11 Beta projects, download the release notes here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=250980

Enjoy!

Alex Turner
Program Manager
Visual Basic and C# Compiler

Some more info here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2012/03/03/10277166.aspx

Having the same issue with Silverlight 5 project.

I'm also having this problem in a WPF project that uses the async CTP. The target framework is set to .NET 4.0 (Client Profile).

If you guys are working on a way to make it possible to use async in SL, can you please come out with a hotfix or something soon (before the final release), because xaml intellense did not work for me in converted SL projects in the preview and therefor I was unable to use the preview version, which suchs because I wasn't able to test and contribute feedback on my experience. And now with this release I am once again unable to use it, which is completely excluding me from the testing and beta use experience. A real big drag not being able to play around with VS11 since it was originally released back in Sept of 2011.

Given the async is merely syntactic sugar over Task Continuations (available in SL5) I'd expect this to work too.

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Yes, I installed new Windows 8 customer preview and Visual Studio 11 beta Ultimate and I have also the same problem. Problem occurs only in Silverlight 4/5.

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The same error occurs when creating a new SL project and using the async keywork. To reproduce just create a new Silverlight Applicaton and add a function like this one:

        private async void test1()
        {
        }