In visual studio, is there a way to step back to see what the few lines executed before were?

Question

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 ba

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Its too late but hope so it help for new comers. This is the Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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"