ProviderManifestToken 2008 or 2012
The application: .NET 4.5 C# Uses EF6 with database first approach Supports SQL Server 2008R2, 2012 and 2014 This question is regarding the ProviderManifestToken attribute of the auto-generated edmx file. Depending on which version of the database is used (different developers have different version of the database) to update the model from the database, the value of the ProviderManifestToken attribute either gets set to 2008 or 2012. Until we discontinued support for SQL Server 2005, we made sure that the value of this attribute remained 2005 (see this SO article for more information). I am