Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11 now available for .NET 4 and Silverlight 5

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If you’ve held off on trying Visual Studio 11 Beta because your .NET 4 or Silverlight 5 app uses the Async CTP, your wait is over!  Today we’ve published the Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11, a NuGet package that lets your Visual Studio 11 projects target .NET 4 and Silverlight 5 while taking advantage of C#’s new await keyword.  While Visual Studio 11 provides built-in support for await in projects that target .NET 4.5 or .NET for Metro style apps, this targeting pack provides the API support to expand the set of target platforms to include .NET 4 and Silverlight 5 as well.

Check out our release notes for more details on how to install NuGet and add the package reference in Visual Studio 11 Beta.

Happy testing!

Alex Turner
Program Manager, VB/C# Compilers