Creating an error reporter...

[Administrator]

Hello,

I'm designing a comprehensive set of base class libraries for use with all future applications in my company. One of which is a error reporting system that will collect information to help track bugs when an exception is thrown, transmit it via a web service, etc. Some details I'd like to capture are the method name, line number, class name, etc. In other words, where exactly in code is this all occuring, in specific parseable items? I will also record the stacktrace, so I know a lot of good info is in there, but there are applications such as CodeSmart that allow you to add variables to retrieve parameters as such (module name, class name, method name, etc.) and I'd like to know how I can retrieve this when an exception is thrown in code. How do we get the method name that contains this exception handler?

Also, anyone know of any good third party add-ins for Visual Studio that have extensive error recording/reporting functionality?

 

[jmcilhinney]

MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod will return a MethodBase object representing the current method. It has Name and Module properties that you should find useful.

 

[Administrator]

Thanks JMC, I found an article that discusses as you mention, and also the StackFrame. I'll investigate.

By the way, sorry to hear of the loss of a great icon from your country.

 

[Administrator]

Click here for the exact code for this. I was hoping to run this from a base class library, but it has to be run from the executing assembly. Works like a champ!