How to get the name of the current method from code

Question

I know you can do  this GetType   FullName   To get  My Current Class   But what can I call to get  My Current Class CurrentMethod

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I think the best way to get the full name is:

 this.GetType().FullName + "." + System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name;

or try this

string method = string.Format("{0}.{1}", MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType.FullName, MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name);

User · Answer

Well System Reflection MethodBase GetCurrentMethod   Name is not a very good choice  cause it will just display the method name without additional information   Like for string MyMethod string str  the above property will return just MyMethod which is hardly adequate   It is better to use System Reflection MethodBase GetCurrentMethod   ToString   which will return the entire method signature

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Does this not work   System Reflection MethodBase GetCurrentMethod        Returns a MethodBase object representing the currently executing method       Namespace   System Reflection      Assembly   mscorlib  in mscorlib dll    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system reflection methodbase getcurrentmethod aspx

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Call System Reflection MethodBase GetCurrentMethod   Name from within the method

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using System Diagnostics       var st   new StackTrace    var sf   st GetFrame 0    var currentMethodName   sf GetMethod      Or  if you d like to have a helper method    MethodImpl MethodImplOptions NoInlining   public string GetCurrentMethod         var st   new StackTrace        var sf   st GetFrame 1        return sf GetMethod   Name      Updated with credits to  stusmith

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Check this out  http   www codeproject com KB dotnet MethodName aspx

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You can also use MethodBase GetCurrentMethod   which will inhibit the JIT compiler from inlining the method where it s used     Update   This method contains a special enumeration StackCrawlMark that from my understanding will specify to the JIT compiler that the current method should not be inlined   This is my interpretation of the comment associated to that enumeration present in SSCLI  The comment follows      declaring a local var of this enum type and passing it by ref into a function     that needs to do a stack crawl will both prevent inlining of the calle and     pass an ESP point to stack crawl to        Declaring these in EH clauses is illegal      they must declared in the main method body

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Since C  version 6 you can simply call  string currentMethodName   nameof MyMethod     In C  version 5 and  NET 4 5 you can use the  CallerMemberName  attribute to have the compiler auto-generate the name of the calling method in a string argument   Other useful attributes are  CallerFilePath  to have the compiler generate the source code file path and  CallerLineNumber  to get the line number in the source code file for the statement that made the call   Before that there were still some more convoluted ways of getting the method name  but much simpler  void MyMethod       string currentMethodName    quot MyMethod quot       etc       Albeit that a refactoring probably won t fix it automatically  If you completely don t care about the  considerable  cost of using Reflection then this helper method should be useful  using System Diagnostics  using System Runtime CompilerServices  using System Reflection          MethodImpl MethodImplOptions NoInlining   public static string GetMyMethodName       var st   new StackTrace new StackFrame 1      return st GetFrame 0  GetMethod   Name

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