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 the stack overflow exception behave in a special way? Can I catch/handle the exception properly?

Not sure if relevant, but additional information:

• the exception is not thrown in the main thread

• the object where the code is throwing the exception is manually loaded by Assembly.LoadFrom(...).CreateInstance(...)

Answer 1

Starting with 2.0 a StackOverflow Exception can only be caught in the following circumstances.

1. The CLR is being run in a hosted environment^* where the host specifically allows for StackOverflow exceptions to be handled
2. The stackoverflow exception is thrown by user code and not due to an actual stack overflow situation (Reference)

_{^*"hosted environment" as in "my code hosts CLR and I configure CLR's options" and not "my code runs on shared hosting"}