Jim Newkirk, Brad Wilson and I have been in agreement about the evils of ExpectedException for a long time. When Jim and Brad wrote xUnit.net, in fact, they left it out and opted instead for a new Throws method that lets you be a lot more precise about what and when you are testing the exception.

But NUnit 2.4.x doesn't have this feature (2.5 will). Fear not! Jim has written a nice little sample of the Throws method for NUnit 2.4.x that provides this same experience in his new post Replacing ExpectedException in NUnit.

If you are using NUnit today, I would really suggest you read the post and consider changing the way you test exceptions in your unit tests.