In the teardown event during an NUnit test how can I get to the attribute applied to the method that was just tested?

Question

I have a test method that is run. When the method generates an exception I want to know what the name of the test was and the exception content.

In the teardown for

Answer 1

OPTION 1: I don't think you can. Or rather, I don't know that you can. How I approach this need is to use a try/catch on the specific tests, do what I want with the exception and then throw again within the catch block so that the test could fail.

try{
    // do something that can potentially throw;
}
catch(Exception ex){
    // do something interesting with the ex;
    throw;
}

OPTION 2: If you've not gone too far along, you may want to use xUnit which has a different exception expectation model and may provide some of the control you are looking for.