Namespace indentation in Visual Studio with C#

Question

Visual Studio indents code within namespace. This can be avoided when disabling indentation globally, which is not what I want. In all other cases, the indentation is fine, I simply don't like the fact that all code is one level - this makes it look ugly to me.

namespace X
{
    public class A
    {}
}

I would prefer it like this:

namespace X
{
public class A
{

}
}

In C++, there's a nice workaround as explained here:

namespace X
{; // the ; after opening brace makes visual studio not indent the class below.

class A
{};

}

But in C#, a namespace cannot directly contain fields so this doesn't work.

How can I get Visual Studio to stop indenting namespaces without disabling indentation globally?

Update Visual Studio 2013 behavior C++ has changed

Tools->Options->C/C++->Formatting->Indentation: [ ] Indent namespace contents 

enables my preferred formatting, while the {; trick doesn't work anymore. But no change for C# that I could find.

Answer 1

1. Text Editor → c# → Tabs → Indenting — Set to "Block"
2. Text Editor → c# → Formatting → General — Turn off every checkbox saying "automatically format..."

Answer 2

This question deserves a new answer in 2021. C#10 (shipped with .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022) introduces File Scoped Namespaces. It allows the following syntax:

namespace Hello.World;

class MyClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
    }
}

So, we can completely remove indentation added by the namespace declaration. The old syntax is supported too.