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Entity Framework 4 and SQL Server 2000

it can be done!!.. (Microsoft .NET,Microsoft SQL Server,Database) by Jason Skowronek on 11/07/2011 If you are unfortunate enough to have to support applications running on legacy SQL Server 2000 databases like me, you are probably aware of the limitation of Visual Studio 2010 and Entity Framework 4.0 for SQL Server 2000 . There are plenty of articles out there on work-arounds. I find this one the most direct and feasible. Granted, I have not looked into possible version issue that may result in doing it this way, but for the various applications on which I have worked, it is sufficiently elegant and functional. This a work-around. Let me repeat, this is a work-around! . Here are the steps to add a new Entity Framework 4 entity context to a Visual Studio 2010 project: Download the base entity data model for SQL Server 2000 file and save it to the project folder to which you wish to add the SQL 2000 entity context. Do NOT add it to your pr...