How to catch unhandled exceptions in windows services?

Question

I am using the AppDomain.UnhandledException event to catch unhandled exceptions in WPF, Console, and WinForms applications.

But the same code does not work in Windows Services. What should I do?

Answer 1

See my answer added to the related SO question .

There are several places in your service code where the thrown exception will not be “unhandled” even if you do not handle it, because the base class does this before it reaches the default handler for AppDomain.