Visual Studio creates unwanted directories for a new solution

So, all you want is to create a new visual studio project called MyProject in a SINGLE directory called MyProject. But behold, Visual Studio has created a million levels of directories called \MyProject\MyProject\MyProject for your project. And put it all all in source control to boot.
Simples:

  1. Specify your project name
  2. Specify the parent directory for MyProject
  3. Untick 'Create Solution Directory

Visual Studio Create Project dialog highlighting the input fields for project name, existing parent directory and the unticked Create Solution Directory option
Visual Studio Create Project dialog

Voila.

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