Yes. Dorothy. There are people using the ADO .NET Entity Framework with SQL Server 2000  in parallel of moving towards a more modern Microsoft SQL Server version. Entity Framework is lovely for developing data-centric applications. By default, Visual Studio 2010 will target SQL Server 2008 as a database. That is fine, but it is kind of invisible … Continue reading The ADO.NET Entity Framework and SQL Server 2000: the ProviderManifestToken attribute and selecting it with XPath