Question

On Visual Studio if I create a new Windows Form and put the following into the Form_Load event:

throw new Exception();

Nothing happens. I can put a breakpoint here and see that this line of code is reached, but no exception seems to be thrown. If I put the same statement into the click event of a button and the click the button, the program crashes as I would expect it to.

What is going on here?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you run it outside the debugger it is thrown. You need to configure the debugger to break on the un-handled exception.

Debug->Exceptions...
Common Language Runtime Exceptions
   System
      System.Exception    Click the "Thrown" checkbox.