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Enable Back and Forward Buttons in Visual Studio 2005

One of the features I used a lot in Visual Studio 2003 were the Back and Forward buttons for browsing in code. In situations where I’m tracing code down/up a call stack, I can click the Back/Navigate Backward or Forward/Navigate Forward buttons and my cursor jumps to the last place it was located in the code editor.

It seems these buttons aren’t enabled/showing by default in Visual Studio 2005, so I had to go hunting around for them.

  1. Click on Tools > Customize (or right-click a toolbar and choose Customize).
  2. Click the Commands tab.
  3. Choose the View category
  4. Find the Navigate Backward and Navigate Forward commands and drag them to a place on the toolbar.

Now you can browse your code!