Third-party dll crashes program with no exception thrown

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010, and coding in C#. I have a third-party dll that I am using in my project. When I attempt to use a specific method, at seemingly random occasions,

Answer 1

Try to force the debugger to catch even handled exceptions - especially the bad ones like Access Violation and Stack Overflow. You can do this in Debug -> Exceptions. It is possible that the third-party DLL catches all exceptions and then calls exit() or some similar beauty which quits the whole program.