Database.EnumObjects() fails on SQL Server 2008

After replacing the SMO 100 assemblies (=SQL 2008) with the SMO 150 (=SQL 2019) nuget package, things worked for 2014 and 2019 databases.

But not for 2008 anymore: Calling Database.EnumObjects() now raised a FailedOperationException:

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.FailedOperationException: Enum objects failed for Database ‘myDatabase’.
—> Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.InvalidVersionEnumeratorException: Operation not supported on version 10.0.5538.
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.XmlReadDoc.LoadInternal()
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.XmlReadDoc.LoadFile(Assembly a, String strFile)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.SqlObject.LoadInitDataFromAssemblyInternal(Assembly assemblyObject, String file, ServerVersion ver, String alias, StringCollection requestedFields, Boolean store, StringCollection roAfterCreation, DatabaseEngineType databaseEngineType, DatabaseEngineEdition databaseEngineEdition, Stream configXml)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.SqlObject.LoadInitData(String file, ServerVersion ver, DatabaseEngineType databaseEngineType, DatabaseEngineEdition databaseEngineEdition)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.ObjectCache.LoadElement(ObjectLoadInfo oli, ServerVersion ver, DatabaseEngineType databaseEngineType, DatabaseEngineEdition databaseEngineEdition)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.ObjectCache.GetElement(ObjectLoadInfo oli, ServerVersion ver, DatabaseEngineType databaseEngineType, DatabaseEngineEdition databaseEngineEdition)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.ObjectCache.GetAllElements(Urn urn, ServerVersion ver, DatabaseEngineType databaseEngineType, DatabaseEngineEdition databaseEngineEdition, Object ci)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.Environment.GetObjectsFromCache(Urn urn, Object ci)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.Environment.GetData(Request req, Object ci)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc.Enumerator.GetData(Object connectionInfo, Request request)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database.EnumObjects(DatabaseObjectTypes types, SortOrder order)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database.EnumObjects(DatabaseObjectTypes types, SortOrder order)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database.EnumObjects()

However, iterating over the various SMO collections (Database.Tables, Database.Views, etc.) still works!

SMOscript tries to deal with this situation by handling the exception and calling the original enumeration code from back-in-the-old-days to retrieve the selected SMO objects.

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