How to best convert a stack trace into HTML (using .NET - C#)

Question

Hello is there a class that does a pretty conversion? Thanks.

Answer 1

There isn't anything built in, but it would be fairly easy.

Just grab the StackTrace:

// Create trace from exception
var trace = new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace(exception);

// or for current code location
var trace = new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace(true);

Once you have this, just iterate the stack frames, and format them as desired.

There would be lots of ways to format this into HTML - it really depends on how you want it to look. The basic concept would be:

int frameCount = trace.Framecount;
for (int i=0;i<frameCount;++i)
{
     var frame = trace.GetFrame(i);
     // Write properties to formatted HTML, including frame.GetMethod()/frame.GetFileName(), etc.
     // The specific format is really up to you.
}