How to throw a SqlException when needed for mocking and unit testing?

Question

I am trying to test some exceptions in my project and one of the Exceptions I catch is SQlException.

It seems that you can\'t go new SqlException(

Answer 1

Not sure if this helps, but seems to have worked for this person (pretty clever).

try
{
    SqlCommand cmd =
        new SqlCommand("raiserror('Manual SQL exception', 16, 1)",DBConn);
    cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
catch (SqlException ex)
{
    string msg = ex.Message; // msg = "Manual SQL exception"
}

Found at: http://smartypeeps.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-to-throw-sqlexception-in-c.html