exception handling - Conditions when finally does not execute in a .net try..finally block

Question

Basically I've heard that certain conditions will cause .net to blow past the finally block. Does anyone know what those conditions are?

Answer 1

Two possibilities:

• StackOverflowException
• ExecutionEngineException

The finally block will not be executed when there's a StackOverflowException since there's no room on the stack to even execute any more code. It will also not be called when there's an ExecutionEngineException, which may arise from a call to Environment.FailFast().