Is there a way to log or intercept First Chance Exceptions

Question

Short of using a profiler, is there any way inside a running program to detect first chance exceptions? Ideally, I would like to record more detailed state information that

Answer 1

I think the only way you can get that information in .NET is using a Debugger.

Otherwise, you'll have to develop a solution yourself for saving the state of a stackframe and having a special way to log exceptions. You'd basically be doing the same things that a memory profiler does, keep track of the instances that are created. This would be a huge performance hit though unless you limit the amount of information you are logging.

A better solution would be to use the Trace and Assert capabilities in the System.Diagnostics namespace to selectively trace the program state, or to use a logging facility (log4net, EnterpriseLibrary, NLog, roll your own simple one) to dump thread / stack / variable information as you go.

In any case, adding all this extra information is a big overhead.

EDIT: I got news of this project in my feed: NTrace. It looks like it will fit a little more of what you're trying to do.