One of the things that I've always found a bit frustrating as a project grows larger and larger is that it gets more difficult to navigate backwards and forwards between chunks of code that you've recently accessed.
Now I know that Visual Studio has some built in navigation hot keys:
Ctrl and Minus to go back to the last point,
Ctrl-Shift-Minus to go forward again are the most useful,
but it can still be a bit laborious when you're trying to flit between several sets of code blocks and you don't particularly want to move in a linear or consecutive way.
Step forward that very clever little Add-In (well, not so little really!) CodeSMART. For some reason I'd stopped using it when I upgraded Visual Studios a while back, but when I was looking around for an answer to this problem I remembered that amongst its many little tools is the Code Explorer.
One of the elements included in the Code Explorer window is a history of the last 20 procedures you've visited. So not only can you move backwards and forwards one step at a time, you can of course jump to any of the saved locations just by double clicking on a choice in the list.
It has some smart features (well, it is CodeSmart after all!), one of which is that it greys out any history items from other files - which helps you to very quickly identify those in your current file that you may be looking for.
And best of all? It persists your history list for each individual Visual Studio Solution, so that the next time you access a particular project Code Explorer will be repopulated with the relevant history for that project. How cool is that?
The Code Explorer does have additional features, such as a fast and neat search tool to take you to procedures that match search criteria, together with what's effectively a Favorites store, the Workbench, where you can keep tabs on items you're particularly interested in.
Of course, CodeSMART has a ton of other features and tools, so if you want to check it out you can download a trial version from their website here.