How to print the current Stack Trace in NET without any exception

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I have a regular C  code  I have no exceptions  I want to programmatically log the current stack trace for debugging purpose  Example   public void executeMethod          logStackTrace        method

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Have a look at the System Diagnostics namespace   Lots of goodies in there   System Diagnostics StackTrace t   new System Diagnostics StackTrace      This is really good to have a poke around in to learn whats going on under the hood   I d recommend that you have a look into logging solutions  Such as NLog  log4net or the Microsoft patterns and practices Enterprise Library  which may achieve your purposes and then some   Good luck mate

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You can also do this in the Visual Studio debugger without modifying the code      Create a breakpoint where you want to see the stack trace  Right-click the breakpoint and select  Actions     in VS2015   In VS2010  select  When Hit      then enable  Print a message   Make sure  Continue execution  is selected  Type in some text you would like to print out  Add  CALLSTACK wherever you want to see the stack trace  Run the program in the debugger    Of course  this doesn t help if you re running the code on a different machine  but it can be quite handy to be able to spit out a stack trace automatically without affecting release code or without even needing to restart the program

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Console WriteLine      new System Diagnostics StackTrace   ToString           The output will be similar to   at YourNamespace Program executeMethod String msg  at YourNamespace Program Main String   args   Replace Console WriteLine with your Log method  Actually  there is no need for  ToString   for the Console WriteLine case as it accepts object  But you may need that for your Log string msg  method

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There are two ways to do this  The System Diagnostics StackTrace   will give you a stack trace for the current thread  If you have a reference to a Thread instance  you can get the stack trace for that via the overloaded version of StackTrace      You may also want to check out Stack Overflow question How to get non-current thread s stacktrace

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private void ExceptionTest                 try                       int j   0              int i   5              i   1   j                    catch  Exception ex                        Console WriteLine  Error      ex Message               var stList   ex StackTrace ToString   Split                    Console WriteLine  Exception occurred at     stList stList Count   - 1                      Seems to work for me

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An alternative to System Diagnostics StackTrace is to use System Environment StackTrace which returns a string-representation of the stacktrace   Another useful option is to use the  CALLER and  CALLSTACK debugging variables in Visual Studio since this can be enabled run-time without rebuilding the application

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