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