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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Caller Information

Reflection is very powerful and enables you to retrieve every possible bit of information from an assembly and types defined in the assembly, including at runtime. However, you might want to catch some information, typically to log some activities, which would be difficult to retrieve via reflection, at least with an easy approach. The .NET Framework 4.6 makes this easier by offering a set of attributes called caller information. This is the list of new attributes exposed by the System.Runtime.CompilerServices namespace:

Image CallerFilePath returns the name of the file where a specific code block is being executed

CallerLineNumber ...

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