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Explain the CLR exception handling flow.

Expert .NET Core
Quick Answer When an exception is thrown, the CLR searches the call stack for a matching catch handler (walking up frame by frame). Finally blocks always run during unwinding. Unhandled exceptions terminate the process. First-chance exceptions are raised before any handler รขโ‚ฌโ€ useful for debuggers. The exception object captures the stack trace at throw time.

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Exception handling involves stack unwinding, handler search, first/second chance exceptions, managed/unmanaged boundary transitions, and finally/fault execution. Throwing is expensive due to metadata lookup and stack analysis.

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