.net - 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 is not available once the catch block has taken over the final exception.

Answer 1

I was googling FirstChanceException, and I can't resist answering this more than two years later...

Now, in .net 4.0, you can catch the FirstChanceException event of the AppDomain. It is an event only, so you can't handle the error, but it seems to be a good, central way to get information on exceptions whether they are handled or not. The FirstChanceException event is thrown before a catch block is allowed to handle it. I haven't found a lot of information on it, but aside from the microsoft documentation, one of the better sources is Mitch Sellers Blog.