Visual Studio Code – Visual Studio 2022 Professional New Class Code Template

I want VS to generate new classes using the new way of declaring namespaces, ie:

namespace A.Namespace.For.Class;
public class ANewClass
{
}

But my VS2022 still uses the old way, ie:

namespace A.Namespace.For.Class
{
    public class ANewClass
    {
    }
}

So I tried to change the template file located at
C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio2022ProfessionalCommon7IDEItemTemplatesCSharpCode1033ClassClass.cs

I changed it to the below:

namespace $rootnamespace$;
public class $safeitemrootname$
{
}

But it looks like VS2022 can’t interpret the semicolon after the namespace’s name because it still uses the old style. But as soon as I remove the semicolon, VS starts to use the new style except that I now have to manually add that semicolon myself.

Anyone knows how to escape that semicolon in that code template file? No documentation seems to be available.