get the name of the method in C#

Question

Is there any way to get the name of the method that currently we are in it?

private void myMethod()
{
    string methodName = __CurrentMethodName__;
    MessageBox(methodName);
}

Like this.ToString() that returns the class name is there any possible way to get name of the method by something like monitoring or tracing the app?

Answer 1

.NET 4.5 adds Caller Information attributes so you can use the CallerMemberNameAttribute:

using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

void myMethod()
{
    ShowMethodName();
}

void ShowMethodName([CallerMemberName]string methodName = "")
{
    MessageBox(methodName);
}

This has the benefit of baking in the method name at compile time, rather than run time. Unfortunately there's no way to prevent someone calling ShowMethodName("Not a real Method"), but that may not be necessary.

Answer 2

This will get you name -

string methodName = System.Reflection.MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod().Name;

OR

string methodName = System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name;