Richard's C# blog

A recent thread in the C# newsgroup yielded this cool tip that I didn't know (oh all the things I've missed not being a VC++ developer).  This will allow you to actually increase the stack size for any given .NET executable - very significantly if you need it.  Note that you may need to have Visual C++ installed to have the Editbin.exe utility used below.  Here's the test code:

using System;
namespace SuperStackSize1
{
 public class StackTest
 {
  private static long _Depth = 0;
  public static void GoDeep() 
  {
   if ((++_Depth % 10000) == 0) System.Console.WriteLine("Depth is " +
            _Depth.ToString());
   GoDeep();
   return;
  }
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
   try
   {
    StackTest.GoDeep();
   }
   catch
   {
    Console.WriteLine("end of prog");
    Console.ReadLine();
   }
   finally {}
  }
 }
}

And here's the .NET command line to pump up the stack:

editbin /stack:4000000 SuperStackSize1.exe

Try it 'before' and 'after' - just remember to run your app from the command line to prevent VS.NET from re-compiling.