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How To: Obtain Method Name Programmatically For Tracing – Michael Palermo

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Added by Interface July 8, 2007

I am not a fan of hard-coding method names in exception or trace messages. Here is a utility method to allow access to method name at runtime:

<span style="color: #0000ff;">public</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">static</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">void</span> TraceContext(<span style="color: #0000ff;">string</span> messageFormat)
{
    <span style="color: #2b91af;">Trace</span>.WriteLine(<span style="color: #0000ff;">string</span>.Format(messageFormat,
        <span style="color: #0000ff;">new</span> System.Diagnostics.<span style="color: #2b91af;">StackFrame</span>(1).GetMethod().Name));
}

public static void TraceContext(string messageFormat)

{

Trace.WriteLine(string.Format(messageFormat,

new System.Diagnostics.StackFrame(1).GetMethod().Name));

}

If I call the method above from inside another method:

<span style="color: #0000ff;">protected</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">void</span> Application_AuthorizeRequest(<span style="color: #0000ff;">object</span> sender, <span style="color: #2b91af;">EventArgs</span> e)
{
    <span style="color: #2b91af;">Tools</span>.TraceContext(<span style="color: #a31515;">&quot;Inside of {0} event handler&quot;</span>);
}

protected void Application_AuthorizeRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Tools.TraceContext("Inside of {0} event handler");

How To: Obtain Method Name Programmatically For Tracing – Michael Palermo