c# - Getting the Stacktrace

Question

When Exception happens you can print out the StackTrace and review it.

What if you want to get the StackTrace without an exception happening?

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

When you catch an exception you can construct StackTrace object and extract useful information from it. See the following example:

        StackTrace st = new StackTrace(true);
        for(int i =0; i< st.FrameCount; i++ )
        {
            // Note that high up the call stack, there is only
            // one stack frame.
            StackFrame sf = st.GetFrame(i);
            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("High up the call stack, Method: {0}",
                sf.GetMethod());

            Console.WriteLine("High up the call stack, Line Number: {0}",
                sf.GetFileLineNumber());
        }

PS: This works even without an exception -- see How to print the current stack trace in .NET without any exception.