How can I get WinForms to stop silently ignoring unhandled exceptions?

Question

This is getting extremely irritating. Right now I have a winforms application, and things were not working right, but no exceptions were being thrown as far as I could tell

Answer 1

An easy fix is not to run under the debugger.

The debugger is masking the exception for some reason. If you run your app normally (Ctrl+F5), you'll get the usual "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application... Continue/Quit?" dialog.