From .NET 2.0 onwards, unhandled exceptions on any thread cause the process to terminate. This is - according to a number of experts - the "correct" behaviour, and is different to how they were handled back in .NET 1.1.
The AppDomain.UnhandledException event allows you to perform some kind of diagnostics (such as logging the exception and stack trace, or performing a mini-dump) after such an exception is thrown, but the CLR is going to exit - whether you like it or not - just as soon as all event handlers have run.
So... if you are a responsible application developer who is spawning new threads (or queueing user work items to the thread pool) please please please ensure that _if_ you can handle the exception, that it is caught and not rethrown. Even if it means storing the exception and letting another thread handle it, as in the case of the asynchronous programming model (APM).
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