Sometimes your logger throws an exception while logging an exception. At least it does if you have luck swings like mine from time to time.

Here's how I deal with it.

using System.Diagnostics;

try
{
    //some logging code that can throw an exception
    //but the exception has to be handled and logged
    //somehow
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    try
    {
        //write exception to OS event log
        if (!EventLog.SourceExists("MyAppName"))
            EventLog.CreateEventSource("MyAppName", "Application");
        EventLog.WriteEntry("MyAppName", "Log Exception: " + e.Message);
    }
    catch
    {
        //sorry charlie
    }
}

It's not perfect, but it seems to work in most cases.

This code comes in handy especially in Windows Services where in the .NET Framework 2.0 and up (as near as I can tell), an unhandled exception will result in your service being stopped with little or no evidence as to why.