AppDomain.FirstChanceException and stack overflow exception

Question

I\'m using the FirstChanceException event to log details about any thrown exceptions.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FirstChanceEx         


        

Answer 1

The MSDN article you linked makes a few recommandations:

You must handle all exceptions that occur in the event handler for the FirstChanceException event. Otherwise, FirstChanceException is raised recursively. This could result in a stack overflow and termination of the application. We recommend that you implement event handlers for this event as constrained execution regions (CERs), to keep infrastructure-related exceptions such as out-of-memory or stack overflow from affecting the virtual machine while the exception notification is being processed.

So enclose your function inside a try/catch block, and call PrepareConstrainedRegion before the block to avoid OutOfMemory exceptions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.compilerservices.runtimehelpers.prepareconstrainedregions.aspx

Edit: Well, you still have the recursion issue even with the try/catch block. So... I guess you just have to call only safe code that won't throw any exception. That event handler seems quite dangerous, I'd recommend to use it only for debugging purpose.