Is this a bug? Unhandled exception inside try catch ??

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When I run my Windows Forms application from VS using F5, execution stops inside a try-catch block, saying an unhandled(!) exception has occured. The exception is of type System.Xml.XmlException and the error message just says "System error".

The following is the code that causes the exception:

try
{
	xNode = xDoc.SelectSingleNode("descendant::job[@id='1']");
}
catch(Exception exc)
{
	//Code to log error
}


I've actually found the cause of the error (a pair of opening and closing tags in the xml file loaded into xDoc had mismatched casing), but why wasn't this exception caught by my try-catch block???

Is this a bug in Visual Studio (2003)?


Regards,
Frode
.

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