.NET – What’s the best way to implement a “catch all exceptions handler”

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I have just played with AppDomain’s UnhandledException behavior,
(this is the last stage the unhandled exception is registered at)

Yes, after processing the event handlers your application will be terminated and the nasty “… program stopped working dialog” shown.

🙂
You still can avoid that.

Check out:

class Program
{
    void Run()
    {
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(CurrentDomain_UnhandledException);

        Console.WriteLine("Press enter to exit.");

        do
        {
            (new Thread(delegate()
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("ha-ha");
            })).Start();

        } while (Console.ReadLine().Trim().ToLowerInvariant() == "x");


        Console.WriteLine("last good-bye");
    }

    int r = 0;

    void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
    {
        Interlocked.Increment(ref r);
        Console.WriteLine("handled. {0}", r);
        Console.WriteLine("Terminating " + e.IsTerminating.ToString());

        Thread.CurrentThread.IsBackground = true;
        Thread.CurrentThread.Name = "Dead thread";            

        while (true)
            Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromHours(1));
        //Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill();
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("...");
        (new Program()).Run();
    }
}

P.S. Do handle the unhandled for Application.ThreadException (WinForms) or DispatcherUnhandledException (WPF) at the higher level.

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