How to obtain method name of caller

[OneFang]

Hi

I hope I make sense here.

I want to be able to obtain the name of the method that calls a method
within my class.

So If I have my class that has a method LogInfo()

And my client code has a method ProcessRequest()
that makes a call to myClass.LogInfo(data)

then I want to be able to obtain the name 'ProcessRequest' from within
the LogInfo() method, without having to pass the method name across.

I'm assuming it's some form of reflection, but really just guessing.

thanks for any info.

Martyn

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

Hi,

Try this:

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Call f()
End Sub

Sub f()
Dim o As New StackTrace()
MsgBox(o.GetFrame(1).GetMethod.Name)
End Sub

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[OneFang]

many thanks Carlos; that did it.

M

 

[Ray Cassick]

Unfortunately code like this breaks when run on an assembly that has been
obfuscated.



I have not found a way around that yet... I used to use code like this in my
debug statements until I found that out.

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

Yes, that's the job of an obfuscator...

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[Ray Cassick]

I know, just pointing out the fact that it becomes harder to use these
automatic methods of getting caller name for debug purposes when using an
obfuscator. It was something that my original code had not taken into
account and I wanted to save them the time of finding that out latter.

Not sure why I thought it would be different but the fact that the metadata
in the assembly gets munged by obfuscation did not seem to enter into my
mind..