Paging with Entity Framework 7 and SQL Server 2008

Question

I\'m trying to use paging (that is .Skip(...).Take(...) in Entity Framework 7. It works OK with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and 2014, but fails with the following

Answer 1

If you use Edmx file, you must open the edmx file using XML Editor and change

ProviderManifestToken="2012" ==> ProviderManifestToken="2008"

in line 7.

Please take a look at this blog post for more information: http://erikej.blogspot.com.tr/2014/12/a-breaking-change-in-entity-framework.html