Task<> does not contain a definition for 'GetAwaiter'

I had this issue in one of my projects, where I found that I had set my project's .Net Framework version to 4.0 and async tasks are only supported in .Net Framework 4.5 onwards.

I simply changed my project settings to use .Net Framework 4.5 or above and it worked.

Just experienced this in a method that executes a linq query.

public async Task<Foo> GetSomething()
{
    return await (from foo in Foos
                  select foo).FirstOrDefault();
}

Needed to use .FirstOrDefaultAsync() instead. N00b mistake.