Visual Studio 2022 automatically changes namespace when moving cs file to antoeher folder

Question

VS started to "synchronize" the namespace of a file with the folder structure when moving files into another folder. I could not find a setting for this in the options menu and also searching for it online did not result in any useful information.

How can I turn this off?

VS info:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022
Version 17.4.3
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Answer 1

The explanation document for this operation "enable namespace update when moving files" is here: Sync namespace and folder name .

You can find it and close it in the following operations.

Tools->Options->Projects and solutions->General->Enable namespace update when moving files