ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

TargetSite

Synopsis

MethodBase = HttpException.TargetSite

Returns a MethodBase instance (the MethodBase class resides in the System.Reflection namespace) representing the method from which the exception was thrown. You can query the properties of MethodBase, such as the Name property, which returns the name of the method. You can also call ToString on the instance to return information about the method in a usable format.

Parameters

MethodBase

An instance of the MethodBase class representing the method from which the exception was thrown.

Example

The code example causes an exception by attempting to set a Session value on a page for which the EnableSessionState attribute of the @ Page directive has been set to False. The example code then displays the resulting error message and uses the Name property of the MethodBase instance returned by the TargetSite property to display the name of the method from which the exception was thrown:

<%@ Page Language="vb" EnableSessionState="false" %>
  
...
  
Sub Page_Load(  )
   Try
      Session("foo") = "Foo"
   Catch HttpEx As HttpException
      Message.Text = "ERROR:<br/>"
      Message.Text &= "Message: " & HttpEx.Message & "<br/>"
      Message.Text &= "Target Site: " & HttpEx.TargetSite.Name & "<br/>"
   End Try
End Sub

Notes

In the example, we access the Name property of the MethodBase instance directly, without creating a separate local variable of type MethodBase. This direct access saves us the trouble of either adding an @ Import statement to import the System.Reflection ...