StackOverflowException in .NET

Question

After hitting a few StackOverflowExceptions in .NET I noticed they completely bypass the unhandled exception handlers that .NET offers (Application.ThreadException / AppDoma

Answer 1

A stackoverflow isn't something you can just recover from, since it can't allocate more stack memory to even call your exception handler.

The only thing you can really do is track down the cause and prevent it from happening at all (eg becareful with recursion, and don't allocate large objects on the stack).