Possible to get name of calling class and function?

[Don]

This may seem like an odd question, but is it possible to get the name of
the class & function that is calling a function of another class?

e.g.

Public Class CallerName
Public Shared Function Test() As String
Return <the name of my caller> ' <--- is there a way to do this?
End Sub
End Class

Public Class MyClass
Public Shared Sub MyFunction
Console.Write CallerName.Test '<-- spits out "MyClass.MyFunction"
End Sub
End Class


- Don

 

[Nick Hall]

This may seem like an odd question, but is it possible to get the name of
the class & function that is calling a function of another class?

e.g.

Public Class CallerName
Public Shared Function Test() As String
Return <the name of my caller> ' <--- is there a way to do this?
End Sub
End Class

Public Class MyClass
Public Shared Sub MyFunction
Console.Write CallerName.Test '<-- spits out "MyClass.MyFunction"
End Sub
End Class


- Don

Have a look in the System.Diagnostics namespace at the classes StackTrace
and StackFrame. The StackTrace will allow you to obtain a reference to the
StackFrame above the current one (i.e. the calling method). You can then
obtain a System.Reflection.MethodBase which will contain all the information
you need. Note, this will probably only work as expected in Debug builds
(as the naming information is not available in Release builds).

Hope this helps,

Nick Hall

 

[Don]

Have a look in the System.Diagnostics namespace at the classes StackTrace
and StackFrame. The StackTrace will allow you to obtain a reference to the
StackFrame above the current one (i.e. the calling method). You can then
obtain a System.Reflection.MethodBase which will contain all the information
you need. Note, this will probably only work as expected in Debug builds
(as the naming information is not available in Release builds).

Thanks for the tips. Here's what I ended up doing (more or less):


Dim strace As New StackTrace
Dim frame As New StackFrame
Dim method As System.Reflection.MethodBase

frame = strace.GetFrame(1) ' Gets the stack frame for the method that called
this one
method = frame.GetMethod ' Grab method info

Console.WriteLine(method.ReflectedType.Namespace & "." &
method.ReflectedType.Name & "." & method.Name)


- Don