'datetime2' error when using entity framework in VS 2010 .net 4.0

Question

Getting this error:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException : The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range v

Answer 1

I had the same issue in my ASP.Net MVC application.

There were two model classes in my application that had DateTime properties.

upon investigating I noticed that the DateTime property of one model was nullable i.e. to make it date of Birth optional property

the other model had DateTime Property with Required data annotation (error occurs when saving this model)

my app is code first so I resolved the issue by setting datatype as DateTime2

[Column(TypeName="datetime2")] 

then I ran the migration on package manager console.