Question

How can I find the full name of a calling method in C#? I have seen solutions:

How I can get the calling methods in C#

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

Get Calling function name from Called function

But they only give me the top level. Consider the example:

namespace Sandbox
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            test();
        }

        static void test()
        {
            var stackTrace = new StackTrace();
            var methodBase = stackTrace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod();
            Console.WriteLine(methodBase.Name);
        }
    }
}

This simply outputs ‘Main’. How can I get it to print ‘Sandbox.Program.Main’?

It’s for a simple logging framework that I am working on.

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Adding onto Matzi’s Answer:

Here is the solution:

namespace Sandbox
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            test();
        }

        static void test()
        {
            var stackTrace = new StackTrace();
            var methodBase = stackTrace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod();
            var Class = methodBase.ReflectedType;
            var Namespace = Class.Namespace;         // Added finding the namespace
            Console.WriteLine(Namespace + "." + Class.Name + "." + methodBase.Name);
        }
    }
}

It produces ‘Sandbox.Program.Main’ like it should.

Answer 1

This is something like here.

MethodBase method = stackTrace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod();
string methodName = method.Name;
string className = method.ReflectedType.Name;

Console.WriteLine(className + "." + methodName);