Unhandled Exceptions Crash .NET Threads

A little something I learned at DSM today. It appears if any thread in .NET crashes (lets a thrown exception fly through the top stack level), the process crashes. I refused to believe at first, but testing on .NET 2.0 showed it to be true:

(I should really switch to another blog platform, I didn't find a decent way to write code in Blogspot).

class ThreadCrashTest
{
static void Main()
{
new Thread(Foo).Start();
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
{
Console.WriteLine(i);
Thread.Sleep(100);
}
}

private static void Foo()
{
Console.WriteLine("Crashing");
throw new Exception("");
}
}

According to Yan, the behavior on .NET 3 is to crash the AppDomain instead of the entire process.