Can I get the name of the method by providing the method itself?

Question

Is there a way to get the method name (as a string) by providing the method itself?

class Person { bool Eat(Food food){...} } 

I want to somehow get the line "Eat." All this! This can be either from an instance or from a class declaration using reflection.

My attempt:

 public delegate bool EatDelegate(Food f); EatDelegate eatDel = new EatDelegate(_person1.Eat); string methodName = eatDel.GetInvocationList()[0].Method.Name; 

This requires knowing the delegate of the method, and all this is unreadable

I need a method name to dynamically call it.

Notes:

• There is a delegate declaration for every method I want to call
• I want to avoid specifying a method name to avoid errors after reflection, etc.
• The method is not called the moment when I want to get its name. (cannot use MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod() )
• I need to use .Net 3.5

Answer 1

 public string GetName(Expression<Action> exp) { var mce = exp.Body as MethodCallExpression; return mce.Method.Name; } 

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a Method

 public int MyMethod(int i) { return 0; } 

and use

  var s= GetName(()=>this.MyMethod(0)); 

Answer 2

 var methods = typeof(Person).GetMethods(); foreach (var method in methods) { if (method.Name.Equals("Eat")) { // do something here... } }