How do you mock a Sealed class?

Question

Mocking sealed classes can be quite a pain. I currently favor an Adapter pattern to handle this, but something about just keeps feels weird.

So, What is t

Answer 1

I came across this problem recently and after reading / searching web, seems like there is no easy way around except to use another tool as mentioned above. Or crude of handling things as I did:

• Create instance of sealed class without getting constructor called.

• System.Runtime.Serialization.FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject(instanceType);

• Assign values to your properties / fields via reflection

• YourObject.GetType().GetProperty("PropertyName").SetValue(dto, newValue, null);
• YourObject.GetType().GetField("FieldName").SetValue(dto, newValue);