Find non-awaited async method calls

Question

I've just stumbled across a rather dangerous scenario while migrating an ASP.NET application to the async/await model.

The situation is that I made a method async: async Task DoWhateverAsync(), changed the declaration in the interface to Task DoWhateverAsync() and hoped that the compiler would tell me where the code now is wrong, via that Warning. Well, tough luck. Wherever that object gets injected via the interface, the warning doesn't happen. :-(

This is dangerous. Is there any way to check automatically for non-awaited methods that return tasks? I don't mind a few warnings too many, but I wouldn't want to miss one.

Here's an example:

using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace AsyncAwaitGames
{
    // In my real case, that method just returns Task.
    public interface ICallee { Task<int> DoSomethingAsync(); }

    public class Callee: ICallee
    {
        public async Task<int> DoSomethingAsync() => await Task.FromResult(0);
    }
    public class Caller
    {
        public void DoCall()
        {
            ICallee xxx = new Callee();

            // In my real case, the method just returns Task,
            // so there is no type mismatch when assigning a result 
            // either.
            xxx.DoSomethingAsync(); // This is where I had hoped for a warning.
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

In the end, we used roslyn to find all instances where a return value of Task or Task<> was ignored:

if (methodSymbol.ReturnType.Equals(syntaxNodeAnalysisContext.SemanticModel.Compilation.GetTypeByMetadataName(typeof(Task).FullName)))
{
    // For all such symbols, produce a diagnostic.
    var diagnostic = Diagnostic.Create(Rule, node.GetLocation(), methodSymbol.ToDisplayString());

    syntaxNodeAnalysisContext.ReportDiagnostic(diagnostic);
}
if (((INamedTypeSymbol) methodSymbol.ReturnType).IsGenericType && ((INamedTypeSymbol) methodSymbol.ReturnType).BaseType.Equals(syntaxNodeAnalysisContext.SemanticModel.Compilation.GetTypeByMetadataName(typeof(Task).FullName)))
{
    // For all such symbols, produce a diagnostic.
    var diagnostic = Diagnostic.Create(Rule, node.GetLocation(), methodSymbol.ToDisplayString());

    syntaxNodeAnalysisContext.ReportDiagnostic(diagnostic);
}