Question

i’m wondering if it is possible to programattically recurse up a stack trace to a particular assembly.

I’m using StructureMap and it creates an instance of a particular class, to inject into another class. kewl. When i’m in the constructor of the injected class, i wish to see what was the parent class and the stack trace more or less has a score of structuremap methods which are called.

So, i wish to find the method which called this structuremap injection, by recursing up the stack trace GetCurrentMethod() methods until we don’t have a structuremap class.

something like…

var callingMethod = System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod();
while (callingMethod.DeclaringType.ToString().Contains("structuremap"))
{
   // get parent calling method, from the variable 'callingMethod'.
}

// here means we've recursed high enough or we have no more to go (null??).

can someone help?

Update

This question is closely related to this SO question … which I ended up adding my own answer, based on the answer from here 🙂

Answer 1

You need to use the StackTrace class.

For example:

var structureMapFrame = new StackTrace()
    .GetFrames()
    .FirstOrDefault(f => f.GetMethod().ToString()
              .IndexOf("structuremap", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) >= 0)