This is clearly broken in Visual Studio 2022, in Text Editor > C# > Code Style > Formatting > General I disabled "Automatically Format" when "Typing", on "Return", on "Paste", and Visual Studio still reformats my code and removes the white space. This is the most time-wasting "feature" Microsoft could ever added to Visual Studio. I always have to reformat the reformatted code on paste. I wish I could charge them the hours of time I have literally wasted on this project over the last year undoing what Microsoft thinks is best for my code. It's also amazing to me to see how many developers complain about stuff like this and yet Microsoft ignores it.