Determine if code is running as part of a unit test

Adapted from Ryan's answer. This one is for the MS unit test framework.

The reason I need this is because I show a MessageBox on errors. But my unit tests also test the error handling code, and I don't want a MessageBox to pop up when running unit tests.

/// <summary>
/// Detects if we are running inside a unit test.
/// </summary>
public static class UnitTestDetector
{
    static UnitTestDetector()
    {
        string testAssemblyName = "Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework";
        UnitTestDetector.IsInUnitTest = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()
            .Any(a => a.FullName.StartsWith(testAssemblyName));
    }

    public static bool IsInUnitTest { get; private set; }
}

And here's a unit test for it:

    [TestMethod]
    public void IsInUnitTest()
    {
        Assert.IsTrue(UnitTestDetector.IsInUnitTest, 
            "Should detect that we are running inside a unit test."); // lol
    }

Taking Jon's idea this is what I came up with -

using System;
using System.Reflection;

/// <summary>
/// Detect if we are running as part of a nUnit unit test.
/// This is DIRTY and should only be used if absolutely necessary 
/// as its usually a sign of bad design.
/// </summary>    
static class UnitTestDetector
{

    private static bool _runningFromNUnit = false;      

    static UnitTestDetector()
    {
        foreach (Assembly assem in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
        {
            // Can't do something like this as it will load the nUnit assembly
            // if (assem == typeof(NUnit.Framework.Assert))

            if (assem.FullName.ToLowerInvariant().StartsWith("nunit.framework"))
            {
                _runningFromNUnit = true;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    public static bool IsRunningFromNUnit
    {
        get { return _runningFromNUnit; }
    }
}

Pipe down at the back we're all big enough boys to recognise when we're doing something we probably shouldn't ;)

I've done this before - I had to hold my nose while I did it, but I did it. Pragmatism beats dogmatism every time. Of course, if there is a nice way you can refactor to avoid it, that would be great.

Basically I had a "UnitTestDetector" class which checked whether the NUnit framework assembly was loaded in the current AppDomain. It only needed to do this once, then cache the result. Ugly, but simple and effective.