How can I find the method that called the current method?

Question

When logging in C#, how can I learn the name of the method that called the current method? I know all about System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod(), but I want to go one step beneath this in the stack trace. I've considered parsing the stack trace, but I am hoping to find a cleaner more explicit way, something like Assembly.GetCallingAssembly() but for methods.

Answer 1

Try this:

using System.Diagnostics; // Get call stack StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace();  // Get calling method name Console.WriteLine(stackTrace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod().Name); 

one-liner:

(new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace()).GetFrame(1).GetMethod().Name 

It is from Get Calling Method using Reflection [C#].

Answer 2

In C# 5, you can get that information using caller info:

//using System.Runtime.CompilerServices; public void SendError(string Message, [CallerMemberName] string callerName = "")  {      Console.WriteLine(callerName + "called me.");  }  

You can also get the [CallerFilePath] and [CallerLineNumber].