C# catch a stack overflow exception

Question

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

Answer 1

It's impossible, and for a good reason (for one, think about all those catch(Exception){} around).

If you want to continue execution after stack overflow, run dangerous code in a different AppDomain. CLR policies can be set to terminate current AppDomain on overflow without affecting original domain.