Quoting from Visual Studio 2017 RC Release Notes
Language Extensions and Analyzers
This release includes some proposed new langua
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) { } } }