Question

Is it possible to retrieve from inside a given method any information about the method that called it?

public void MethodOne()
{
   for (int nCount = 0; nCount < 10; nCount++) MethodTwo();
}
public void MethodTwo()
{
   // Can I retrieve here information about the call to MethodOne which originated this call?
}

For example, in this situation I would like to be able to know at runtime that a given set of ten calls to MethodTwo were originated from a call to MethodOne in a given thread… Is this possible?

Answer 1

This is horrible:

string caller0 = new StackFrame(1).GetMethod().Name; // MethodOne
string caller1 = new StackFrame(2).GetMethod().Name; // whatever called MethodOne

(this also doesn’t come free; any such abuse has a performance price)