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

This is really old and there are some good answers here. I am using Moq, and I can't mock up Abstract classes and really didn't want to use reflection, so I made my own Exception derived from DbException. So:

public class MockDbException : DbException {
  public MockDbException(string message) : base (message) {}
}   

obviously, if you need to add InnerException, or whatever, add more props, constructors, etc.

then, in my test:

MyMockDatabase.Setup(q => q.Method()).Throws(new MockDbException(myMessage));

Hoepfully this will help anyone that's using Moq. Thanks for everyone that posted in here that led me to my answer.