After "Go to Definition", is there a command to return to where you came from?
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If so, is it a stack?
That is, can I:
GoToDefinition
GoTODefinition
GoToDefinition
and then pop back up the call stack?
None of the Edit.GoTo... commands do what I am looking for.
TIA.
Visual Studio-2010 Solutions
Solution 1 - Visual Studio-2010
You can go to the last place you navigated to by doing CTRL+-
(That's the control key and the "minus" or "dash" key.)
Solution 2 - Visual Studio-2010
The correct way to navigate this stack is with View.ForwardBrowseContext and View.PopBrowseContext commands. In the default C# schema they are bound to Ctrl+Shift+7 and Ctrl+Shift+8 respectively.
Solution 3 - Visual Studio-2010
Tip by Brian Sullivan (Ctrl+-) works great.
You also can use a side button on your mouse (if your mouse has a side button and that button programmed for Back functionality in a browser).
Solution 4 - Visual Studio-2010
If you have an MS mouse with the latest Intellipoint drivers installed, you can have program-specific commands associated with mouse buttons. Find out what the "Back" keyboard command is for your program. For VS .NET 2003/2005/2008 it is Ctrl+\ (control backslash) which is tied to View.NavigateBackward. Then go into the Control Panel for the mouse, click on the checkbox for "Enable program-specific settings" and then click on Settings.
Click on "Add" and pick your favorite Visual Studio and map Ctrl-\ to the left button.
Others programs of interest:
uVision3 IDE (the Keil compiler): Alt-Left
Adobe Reader 9.0: Alt-Left
javaw (as in Eclipse): Ctrl-F2
VB6: Ctrl-Shift-F2
Actually, the Eclipse one isn't Ctrl-F2 but is something that cannot be mapped, so I added that mapping within Eclipse and then the new mapping in the mouse driver.
Hope that helps!
Solution 5 - Visual Studio-2010
In Microsoft Dev Studio it was always mapped to CTRL+* (The * on the numerical keypad) but not in C# Express, I notice. Here it's Ctrl+Shift+8, as already noted.
Solution 6 - Visual Studio-2010
Navigate backward
and Navigate forward
is the right choice. These can be found in toolbars.
Solution 7 - Visual Studio-2010
A third party tool like ReSharper would give you the functionality you require.
It is "da bomb!"
Navigation in the Solution explorer is a thing of the past.
Kindness,
Dan
Solution 8 - Visual Studio-2010
I just use the back button on my mouse.
Has always worked by default for me.