How to Get the Name of the Current Method from Code

How to get the name of the current method from code

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.

Get Current Method Name

As stated here:

Caller Info values are emitted as literals into the Intermediate Language (IL) at compile time. Unlike the results of the StackTrace property for exceptions, the results aren't affected by obfuscation.

So from your method you could try to call the following method like:

public string GetCaller([System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallerMemberName] string memberName = "")
{
     return memberName;
}

How to get the name of current function?

Try this:

System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name 

Getting the name of the currently executing method

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace() will usually contain the method you’re calling it from but there are pitfalls (see Javadoc):

Some virtual machines may, under some circumstances, omit one or more stack frames from the stack trace. In the extreme case, a virtual machine that has no stack trace information concerning this thread is permitted to return a zero-length array from this method.

Get the name of the currently executing method in dotnet core

CallerMemberNameAttribute Allows you to obtain the method or property name of the caller to the method.

public void DoProcessing()
{
    TraceMessage("Something happened.");
}

public void TraceMessage(string message,
        [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallerMemberName] string memberName = "",
        [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallerFilePath] string sourceFilePath = "",
        [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallerLineNumber] int sourceLineNumber = 0)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("message: " + message);
    System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("member name: " + memberName);
    System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("source file path: " + sourceFilePath);
    System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("source line number: " + sourceLineNumber);
}

// Sample Output:
//  message: Something happened.
//  member name: DoProcessing
//  source file path: c:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\CallerInfoCS\CallerInfoCS\Form1.cs
//  source line number: 31

How can I find the method that called the current method?

Try this:

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

one-liner:

(new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace()).GetFrame(1).GetMethod().Name

It is from Get Calling Method using Reflection [C#].

Get the name of the current method

System.Reflection.MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod();

Get the name of the current method being executed

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[1].getMethodName()

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