DoStackSnapshot Tidbit #1: Exception Filters

posted by  mneon (8)  16 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Believe it or not, my last (rather large) post on stack walking actually left out several miscellaneous details about using DoStackSnapshot.  I'll be posting those details separately.  We'll start off with some light reading on exception filters.  No deadlocks this time, I promise.

For those of you diehard C# fans, you might be unaware of the existence of exception filters in managed code. While VB.NET makes them explicitly available to the programmer, C# does not. Filters are important to understand when you call DoStackSnapshot, as your results might look a little we