Use an Action delegate to time a method…

I wanted an ability to be able to simply time methods and write to a log/trace sink and a very simple approach that I ended up using was to provide a method that takes an Action delegate which would be the method that is to be timed.

The following is what I came up with (this is my reminder…)

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        TestMethod1();
    }
private static void TestMethod1()
{
    LoggingHelper.TimeThis("doing something", () =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine("This is the Real Method Body");
        Thread.Sleep(100);
    });
}

}
public static class LoggingHelper

{

public static void TimeThis(string message, Action action)

{

string methodUnderTimer = GetMethodCalled(1);

Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();

LogMessage( string.Format("started: {0} : {1}", methodUnderTimer, message));

action();

sw.Stop();

LogMessage(string.Format("ended  : {0} : {1} : elapsed : {2}", methodUnderTimer, message, sw.Elapsed));
}

private static string GetMethodCalled(int stackLevel)
{
    StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace();
    StackFrame stackFrame = stackTrace.GetFrame(stackLevel + 1);
    MethodBase methodBase = stackFrame.GetMethod();
    return methodBase.Name;
}

static void LogMessage(string message){
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", message);
}

}