Exceptions in multithreaded application.

Question

I have heard from a very discerning person that an exception being thrown (and not caught) in a thread is being propagated to the parent thread. Is that true? I have tried some

Answer 1

The thread's exception will not propogate to the main thread's context. This really makes sense - by the time the exception is thrown, the main thread will typically be in a completely different scope than the one containing your exception handler.

You can catch these exceptions (typically to log them) by hooking into AppDomain.UnhandledException. See that page for details, including differences in Windows Forms applications, etc.