C# catch a stack overflow exception

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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 the stack overflow exception behave in a special way? Can I catch/handle the exception properly?

Not sure if relevant, but additional information:

  • the exception is not thrown in the main thread

  • the object where the code is throwing the exception is manually loaded by Assembly.LoadFrom(...).CreateInstance(...)

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You can't as most of the posts are explaining, let me add another area:

On many websites you will find people saying that the way to avoid this is using a different AppDomain so if this happens the domain will be unloaded. That is absolutely wrong (unless you host your CLR) as the default behavior of the CLR will raise a KillProcess event, bringing down your default AppDomain.

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