Method/Function name

[pz]

How do I output the name of the method or a function without hard-coding it
in the application?
Say, I want application to write to stdout the name of the method that
currently is getting executed, to give me better idea how the program logic
is flowing (I am writing a multithreaded application). Instead of copying
Console.Writeline("Method123");
and pasting it to 100+ methods, and then correcting the names of the modules
in each one of them, is there a variable that would contain the name of the
method that has control. There's got to be a better way than hard-coding
it...

 

[DrewCE]

If you don't care about performance, you could use the StackTrace and
StackFrame objects. To get the name of the current method:

StackTrace st = new StackTrace();
string methodName = st.GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Name;

...or something like that. A quick google yielded the following....

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mames/archive/2004/08/03/21091.aspx

...you can even get the line number...

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stacktrace.aspx

-Drew

 

[vvnraman]

How do I output the name of the method or a function without hard-coding it
in the application?
Say, I want application to write to stdout the name of the method that
currently is getting executed, to give me better idea how the program logic
is flowing (I am writing a multithreaded application). Instead of copying
Console.Writeline("Method123");
and pasting it to 100+ methods, and then correcting the names of the modules
in each one of them, is there a variable that would contain the name of the
method that has control. There's got to be a better way than hard-coding
it...

Hi pz
Its very simple to get information about the currently executing
method.
You simply have to call the static GetCurrentMethod() of the
MethodBase class.
It will return a MethodBase object from where you can get all the
information
you need about the method.

Use it inside a method as :

System.Reflection.MethodBase currMethod =
System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod();

In your case you only want the name of the method so you can output it
as

Console.Writeline(currMethod.Name);

Hope this helps
Prateek Raman

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You might be better off using a profiling tool to see this sort of
information.

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