Catch block not catching exception

Question

I have a child form that is throwing an ApplicationException in the Load event handler (intentionally for testing purposes). The parent form wraps the ChildForm.Show() meth

Answer 1

The new window has its own thread, which is doing its own loading. To verify this, you can try putting in a Thread.Sleep for a few seconds into Form2_Load before the exception. Your main thread window should continue execution before you hit the exception.