That's my understanding too. I usually add an event handler to TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException that logs any exception like that so at least there's some

That's my understanding too. I usually add an event handler to TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException that logs any exception like that so at least there's some trace of it. You could also use it to end the process with an error this way if you prefer to treat uncaught exceptions as fatal errors.