It used to be that if an exception got raised and propagated far enough up the call stack, Application’s main loop would handle it and give you a dialog box. That behavior seems to be broken under Windows Vista. If any exception reaches that level, Vista steps in and says the program “has stopped working,” when it used to be perfectly able to continue under XP. (That’s the entire reason the exception handler in the main loop is there, for heaven’s sake!)
Is there any way to fix this? Preferably in my code itself and not just on my computer, so it won’t screw up on other systems?
Check to ensure that the global variable in System, JITEnable is still set to 0. If that variable is set to 1, hardware (and external) exceptions will cause that behavior by calling UnhandledExceptionFilter. If it is set to 2, any exception will cause it.