c# How to get a meaninful name of website or executable

Question

We have an internal error reporting system (inside our functions dll) and one of the info pieces we send is the name of the application that caused it.

Current code:

string applicationname= Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().GetName().Name;

The problem is when the error is send from one of our websites as it sends application names like "App_Code.6p_c415d".

One possible way was determining if the app is an executable or a website dinamically (how do we do that?) and in the case of being a website get the folder containing it or so...

But if you have better ways we are open to any idea ^^

try this (this may well give you a meaningful name, but will not detect if your app is Console, Windows, ASP.NET ect)...System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.ApplicationHost.GetSiteName(); — Matthew Layton, Nov 07 '12 at 12:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '12 at 20:27

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You can use a key in the AppSettings to identify your application.

answered Nov 07 '12 at 20:27

lstern

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Could be but the dll will be used by other people too, the less they have to do (i know this is silly :/) the better...and if they leave it blank we would have to guess which application is... – VSP Nov 08 '12 at 08:30

VSP · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-08T16:25:17.607

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We ended up creating the following function and it works fine:

public static string getApplicationName()
{
    return string.IsNullOrEmpty(HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppId)?
        Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetName().Name : 
        new DirectoryInfo(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("")).Name;
}

edited Nov 08 '12 at 16:25

answered Nov 08 '12 at 08:46

VSP

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c# How to get a meaninful name of website or executable

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