How to turn off and disable Global Usings in Visual Studio

Not everyone is a fan of Global Usings which were released with C# 10 in November 2021.

Since the templates for C# .NET 6+ projects have Global Usings enabled by default a lot of devs wonder how to turn them off and disable them. Thankfully this is easy, simply set the ImplicitUsings tag to disable in your project file…


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  1. This works sometimes, however I still have cases where Visual Studio insists on using global using statements even with disable added to the project file.

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