diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/JsonTextReaderTest.cs b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/JsonTextReaderTest.cs
index 3e3259f4..fbd29ce7 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/JsonTextReaderTest.cs
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/JsonTextReaderTest.cs
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Tests
 
             jsonTextReader = new JsonTextReader(new StringReader("'AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAABAAAA'"));
             data = jsonTextReader.ReadAsBytes();
-            expected = Guid.Parse("AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAABAAAA").ToByteArray();
+            expected = new Guid("AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAABAAAA").ToByteArray();
 
             CollectionAssert.AreEqual(expected, data);
         }
diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/Linq/LinqToJsonTest.cs b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/Linq/LinqToJsonTest.cs
index b473ff4d..d1d29edf 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/Linq/LinqToJsonTest.cs
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json.Tests/Linq/LinqToJsonTest.cs
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Tests.Linq
 
             o = JObject.Parse("{'responseArray':'AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAABAAAA'}");
             data = o["responseArray"].ToObject<byte[]>();
-            expected = Guid.Parse("AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAABAAAA").ToByteArray();
+            expected = new Guid("AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAABAAAA").ToByteArray();
 
             CollectionAssert.AreEqual(expected, data);
         }