Visual Studio - inject hard coded number / identifier in to code

Question

Is something along these lines possible? Using Visual Studio (and it's kind of language agnostic I guess but I am using C#), precompiling, I would like to somehow inject and replace values with a unique ID (or number is fine!).

E.g.

public void HelloWorld (
{
    {VARIABLE_FOR_UNIQUE_ID_REPLACED_AT_COMPILE_TIME}
    var someVar = "Error Code#";

    console.print(someVar + {VARIABLE_FOR_UNIQUE_ID_REPLACED_AT_COMPILE_TIME})

}

So for every function, I will have {VARIABLE_FOR_UNIQUE_ID_REPLACED_AT_COMPILE_TIME} and it will be a unique ID to that function, in every file, throughout the solution. It doesn't need to be anything complicated like a GUID, ideally it is just an incremental number when added but does not change after adding. This number is used to identify the function for Error Codes - so I can track where the error derived from even though the message is a generic "something went wrong", e.g. "Error Code #445 something went wrong", "Error Code #6778 something went wrong".

Answer 1

I think you should manage that yourself.

Think about it:

If you get error reports in saying "Error Code #445 something went wrong" then first thing you will want to do is search your code base for "445" to find the originating code - but you won't find anything with the scheme you are describing since the actual source of the error will just say {VARIABLE_FOR_UNIQUE_ID_REPLACED_AT_COMPILE_TIME}.

If on the other hand you just manage it yourself and write something like:

int errorCode = 445;

...and always keep that same pattern in your code, then in a debug situation where you need to find 445 you can actually search your code base for 445 and find the place where the error is coming from.

Answer 2

In C# you can get the method name from code for example like this:

public void HelloWorld()
{
    ShowError();
}

static void ShowError([System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallerMemberName] string caller = null)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Error Code for " + caller);
}

It will print: "Error Code for HelloWorld".