In one of my projects, the requirement was to log the error information inside a method if an exception occurs. I needed to record the current method name along with the error message. The code was like this:
public void DoSomething()
{
try
{
//The method code goes here.
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
WriteLog("DoSomething", ex.ToString());
//The first parameter of WriteLog method is the name of the current method.
}
}
I was not happy with the way I had to hard code the name of the current method(“DoSomething” here). This way I had to hard code the names of every method where I needed to log the error information.This required to change every method name in the lines of log writing if i had to change the method name.So I was looking for a built in feature that will provide me the current method name.I searched for a while and found a handy solution in the “System.Diagnostics” namespace of the .NET Framework.Here is the code to automatically get the name of the current method.
public void DoSomething()
{
try
{
//The method code goes here.
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
string currentMethodName = new
System.Diagnostics.StackTrace().GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Name;
//The "GetMethod" method returns a "MethodBase" object.With
//this we can access the name of the method and
//other valuable information like access
//modifier,parameters,return types e.tc.//
WriteLog(currentMethodName, ex.ToString());
}
}
I found the API provided by the “System.Diagnostics” namespace really interesting and useful.
