How do you default a new class to public when creating it in Visual Studio?

Question

When I right click in the Solution of a C# Visual Studio project and select Add... > Class... it creates a class without a public modifier. How do I get Visual Studio (2008)

Answer 1

In addition of JochemKempe great answer, here is how to do it for the .NET core templates.

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.NET Core

Instead of editing the templates inside the \CSharp\ directory, you need to edit the ones inside \AspNetCore\.

VS2019 (Enterprise): C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\AspNetCore\Code\1033\Class\Class.cs

VS2019 (Professional): C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\AspNetCore\Code\1033\Class\Class.cs