Top-level exception handling

Found a good article on exception handling. Top-level Exception Handling in Windows Forms Applications and followed some advice from it.

What it meant for me, basically, is that I changed the Program.cs file of my application from this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace MyNameSpace
{
    static class Program
    {
        /// 

        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// 
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new FormUpdater());
        }
    }
}

to this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;

namespace MyNameSpace
{
    static class Program
    {
        /// 

        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// 
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.ThreadException += 
                new ThreadExceptionEventHandler(new 
                  ThreadExceptionHandler().ApplicationThreadException);

            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new FormUpdater());
        }

        public class ThreadExceptionHandler
        {
            public void ApplicationThreadException
                  (object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(e.Exception.Message, "Error", 
                      MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            }
        }
    }
}

and that allowed me to get rid of a couple of dozens try/catch blocks in the application code without losing any exception handling functionality. Quite handy.

by Evgeny. Also posted on my website