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My computer randomly shut down on me and I wound up losing the project I was working on. I am using Visual C# Express and no sort of auto recovery or anything kicked in. Does C# Express have an auto recovery, or is that only Visual Studio?
C# Express (if I remember right) has the feature exactly like it is in the normal VS suite, but it is by default disabled. if you go Tools > Options > Environment > AutoRecover you can turn it on. Like it was already said though, this only works on the active file and it seems to be haphazard. Use with caution in other words.
The best solution, post mortem, would be to increase the frequency of saving. When I finish writing or editing a method, class, file, anything that is in a working state, I like to save it locally. I submit to source control once it is ready for that, but locally I save far too much. I also lose very little work if something goes wrong.