Productivity Power Tools Remove and Sort Usingas on save broken after Upgrade to ASP.NET Core 2.2

[JamesKibirige]

Hello, I am having issues with the remove and sorting using the feature in VS 2017 Power commands extension. Also, the suggestions for remove and sort usings are causing problems.

After I upgraded to Asp.net Core 2.2 suggestions for my using statements and remove and sort usings, have become unreliable. It is suggesting to remove using declarations that are needed and necessary in the project. This is a serious issue as if it cannot be trusted it can easily break the dependencies in a solution. I used to run the Remove and sort usings command on the entire solution, how can an upgrade to .NET Core 2.2 create an issue like this?

[prnadago]

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[phenry9999]

I am seeing this happening now as well with VS 2019. Simply stated, the reordering of the System namespaces are not sorted to the top and the others are not sorted alphabetically. In short, the setting are simply being ignored (tools\options\Text Editor\C#\Advanced\Using Directives section.