LINQ to Entities produces query containing datetime2 on SQL 2005 Express

Question

I\'ve got a LINQ to Entities app and a database project to manage the schema in a VS 2010 solution targetting .NET 4.0. The entity model is currently reverse engineered from

Answer 1

You need to change the ProviderManifestToken inside your EDMX to the value 2005. You probably generated your DB against a 2008 DB. Make this change and the EF will stop using 2008 syntax.