Unit Testing Internal Classes in C#

I recently added a whole bunch of tests to EasyLogger, if you are wondering what EasyLogger is then take a look HERE to find out why I created it. I wanted to have at least 80% coverage and that meant having to write tests for the Log4NetLogger.cs class which happens to be internal:

internal sealed class Log4NetLogger : ILogger  
{
    private readonly ILog _logger;

    [DebuggerStepThrough]
    internal Log4NetLogger(ILog logger)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }

    [DebuggerStepThrough]
    public void Debug(object message)
    {
        _logger.Debug(message);
    }    
    ...

This meant that in my test method I could not do:

var mockedLogger = new Mock<ILog>();  
var logger = new Log4NetLogger(mockedLogger.Object);  

I intentionally defined this class as an internal because I did not want the user to be able to create an instance of this outside the context of the Log4netService but now how would I test it? hmm....

I could just write an integration or even an end-to-end test to make sure I meet the coverage requirement and call it a day but it just didn't feel right; I still wanted to have unit tests for the class. So after a few minutes of talking to uncle google I found...

InternalsVisibleToAttribute

As MSDN explains:

Specifies that types that are ordinarily visible only within the current assembly are visible to a specified assembly.

After putting this guy inside the AssemblyInfo.cs, the internal class became visible to the EasyLogger.Tests.Unit assembly which meant I managed to unit test an internal class in C# for first time! Happy Days! :-)