Get current method name from async function?

Question

Is there anyway to get the current method name from inside an async function?

I\'ve tried:

System.Reflection.MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod();
         


        

Answer 1

It's a bit late to answer your question I guess but since I had the same issue and I needed to figure it out on my own due to lack of a good resolution to this on the internet, here is what I did and it works perfectly at least for me -

1. Define the following Regex somewhere that can be accessed by all callers since Regex objects need to be parsed before using them; hence, it can be expensive, and it's not a good practice to create them over and over if we can use the same one.
   public static readonly Regex ASYNC_METHOD_NAME_FORMAT = new Regex(@"^\<(?\w+)>\w+?");
2. Use the following code to get the method name
   string methodName = ASYNC_METHOD_NAME_FORMAT.Match(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().ReflectedType.Name).Groups["method_name"].Value

I hope this helps!