C# catch a stack overflow exception

Question

I have a recursive call to a method that throws a stack overflow exception. The first call is surrounded by a try catch block but the exception is not caught.

Does

Answer 1

Yes from CLR 2.0 stack overflow is considered a non-recoverable situation. So the runtime still shut down the process.

For details please see the documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.stackoverflowexception.aspx