In visual studio, is there a way to step back to see what the few lines executed before were?
Visual Studio-2008Visual Studio-2008 Problem Overview
In visual studio, is there a way to step back to see what the few lines executed before were? I hit an unhandled exception in my code, and what I would like to do is step back (without re-executing) so I could see the class/method that called the method that threw the exception. This is in C#
Visual Studio-2008 Solutions
Solution 1 - Visual Studio-2008
Debug -> Windows -> Call Stack (Ctrl + Alt + C is default bindings (I think))
Will show you the history of execution, you can double click events to go to definition, however you cannot step back in code
But you can drag your little yellow arrow to another point in the code to re-execute some code, again this will not change what has already been executed
Solution 2 - Visual Studio-2008
VS2010 is supposed to be able to support historical debugging in which you can go backwards as you suggest. http://blogs.msdn.com/ianhu/archive/2009/05/13/historical-debugging-in-visual-studio-team-system-2010.aspx
Unfortunately there is no way to do this in VS2008.
Solution 3 - Visual Studio-2008
Just you need to drag the little yellow arrow to any different point to re-execute the code you need.
Note: This will not change what has already been executed.
Solution 4 - Visual Studio-2008
Its too late but hope so it help for new comers. This is the Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace
Solution 5 - Visual Studio-2008
The latest Visual Studio Preview (as of today: 2017-10-16) has "stepping back"
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/preview/
"Improved debugging capabilities such as stepping back"
Solution 6 - Visual Studio-2008
Because SO keeps showing The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!
So I had to give up on revising sal's answerand a separate answer。
The official documentation say:
>IntelliTrace is available in Visual Studio Enterprise edition, but not in the Visual Studio Professional or Community editions.