>Are you using CodeFirst? In that case just declare the date as SmallDateTime. In the entity designer there's a dropdown to pick type and the SqlDbTypes should all be there I believe (it's been a long time since I used the designer though so not sure what that looks like today).
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I am using CodeFirst and I am not using EF designers. I have all my classes defined in code.

Here is what I have

[DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
      [DisplayName("Created on")]
      [Column("enteredon", TypeName = "smalldatetime")]
      public DateTime EnteredOn { get; set; }

      [DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
      [DisplayName("Modified on")]
      [Column("modifiedon", TypeName = "smalldatetime")]
      public DateTime? ModifiedOn { get; set; }