How to get name of calling method in C#?

Question

How can I find out who called a method in C#?

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Answer 1

You can get calling method in C# using Reflection mechanism.

To get name of calling method use method StackTrace.GetFrame. Create new instance of StackTrace and call method GetFrame(1). The parameter is index of method call in call stack. Index of the first (the nearest) method call is „1“, so it returns a StackFrame of the calling method (method which directly called the current method). To get the method name use StackFrame.GetMethod (to get MethodBase) and then just get value of Name property.

Following example shows how to get calling method name. This can be useful e.g. to write debugging logs.

using System.Diagnostics;
// get call stack
StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace();
// get calling method name
Console.WriteLine(stackTrace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod().Name);