Get the name of the current executing function from within the function in C#

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Is there a way to programatically get the name of which method or property the current code is executing under?

void Test() { MessageBox.Show("This is a message from " + GetNameOfCurrentMethod); }

I thought about throwing an exception, catching it and parsing the stack trace but there should be a better way to do this.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44153/can-you-use-reflection-to-find-the-name-of-the-currently-executing-method — Rawling, Apr 17 '12 at 11:58
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44153/can-you-use-reflection-to-find-the-name-of-the-currently-executing-method — Chris Gessler, Apr 17 '12 at 11:59

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 11:58

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Try:

MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod().Name

answered Apr 17 '12 at 11:58

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 11:58

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System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name;

answered Apr 17 '12 at 11:58

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Apr 17 '12 at 12:00

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 12:18

Not currently relevant but for future readers .NET 4.5 introduces a CallerMemberNameAttribute which can be applied to optional method parameters to get the caller information (providing it doesn't get removed from Beta to RTM!). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh534540(v=vs.110).aspx

Get the name of the current executing function from within the function in C#

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