Today I upgraded my solution with all the underlying projects from VS2008 to VS2010. Everything went well except for my unit tests.
First of all only the web projects had as target framework .NET 4. All the other projects still had .NET 3.5. I changed them all to .NET 4.
Now when I debug my unit tests it breaks on every exception. In 2008 it just wouldn’t pass and tell me that an exception occurred. Even when I have the ExpectedException attribute defined it stops debugging on every exception.
And example of one of my tests:
[TestMethod]
[ExpectedException(typeof(EntityDoesNotExistException))]
public void ConstructorTest()
{
AddressType type = new AddressType(int.MaxValue);
}
The EntityDoesNotExistException is a custom exception and inherits Exception.
Edit
I looked at the Exceptions settings (ctrl+alt+e) in 2008 and 2010. In both versions the settings are the same. However in 2008 the debug doesn’t break when I have the ExpectedException attribute. In 2010 it does break.
According to Microsoft, this is not a bug, it’s “by design”:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/511897/expectedexception-still-causes-debugging-to-break-with-exception-was-unhandled-by-user-code