Calling a function by it's name which has been stored in a string

[Gareth_Hastings]

Hello, I've found in every function I am writing I have lots of debug code and was just wondering if I can somehow shorten it. For example: void testFunction() { try { .... Do something that might cause an exception here } catch(mySpecialException e) { myLogClass.log(e.message); myLogClass.dump; //dumps systeminfo to somewhere } } What I would like is to have some kind of wrapper which I could pass the function name (either by name or as a pointer(delegate?)) to it which would then execute and return. Example: void wrapper(functionToRun()) { try { functionToRun(); } catch(...) { myLogClass.log(message); } } void test() { Console.WriteLine("Hello this is a test!"); } void hello() { Console.WriteLine("Hello"); } static void Main(string[] args) { wrapper(test()); wrapper(hello()); } Any ideas? Thanks

[S Senthil Kumar]

If all your functions have the same signature, then it is possible. You can do something like

public class Foo
{
delegate void WrapperDelegate();

void Hello() { Console.WriteLine("Hello"); }
void Test() { Console.WriteLine("Test"); }

public void SomeFunc()
{
   executeFunction(new WrapperDelegate(Hello));
   executeFunction(new WrapperDelegate(Test));
}

private void executeFunction(WrapperDelegate d)
{
    try
    {
       d();
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
       // blah blah
    }
}

}

Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro

[Gareth_Hastings]

Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately hardly any of my functions have the same signature!

[S Senthil Kumar]

The solution will work if there only a few signatures. You just need to create one WrapperDelegate for each type and add one executeFunction for each such WrapperDelegate. Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro