Moq and throwing a SqlException

Question

I have the following code to test that when a certain name is passed to my method, it throws a SQL exception (there is reason to that one, although it sounds a little odd).<

Answer 1

For me to produce an SqlException with a message it was the simplest way using the Uninitialized Object method:

const string sqlErrorMessage = "MyCustomMessage";
var sqlException = FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject(typeof(SqlException)) as SqlException;
var messageField = typeof(SqlException).GetField("_message", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
messageField.SetValue(sqlException, sqlErrorMessage);