Why is .NET exception not caught by try/catch block?

Question

I\'m working on a project using the ANTLR parser library for C#. I\'ve built a grammar to parse some text and it works well. However, when the parser comes across an illeg

Answer 1

Are you using .Net 1.0 or 1.1? If so then catch(Exception ex) won't catch exceptions from unmanaged code. You'll need to use catch {} instead. See this article for further details:

http://www.netfxharmonics.com/2005/10/net-20-trycatch-and-trycatchexception/