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** Also affects: nunit-3.0
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: nunit-3.0
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: nunit-3.0
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: nunit-3.0
    Milestone: None => 2.9.2

** Changed in: nunit-3.0
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)

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Assert.Catch<T> should return T instead of System.Exception
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430100
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Status in NUnit Test Framework: Confirmed
Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework: Confirmed

Bug description:
The Assert.Catch<T> should return the generic exception type instead of overly widened System.Exception. So that code below is possible:

ArgumentException e = Assert.Catch<ArgumentException>( ()=>...);
Assert.That(e.ParamName, ....);