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DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

DNN Platform is community-led and a member project of the .NET Foundation.

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DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

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Forum: Upgrading DNN Platform

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9.4 post upgrade issues - critical error editing Module Settings Started By Dave Madison After upgrading from DNN 9.32 to 9.4, I am not able to edit any module settings. It throws the exception below: AbsoluteURL:/Default.aspx DefaultDataProvider:DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke ExceptionGUID:0cfdb909-afd2-4b05-8648-867ec967cab8 AssemblyVersion:9.4.0 PortalId:4 UserId:2 TabId:70 RawUrl:/Home/ctl/Module/ModuleId/520ReturnURL=/&popUp=true UserAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282....	3	3320	1	9/13/2019 12:29 PM by Dave Madison
9.4 Post Upgrade issue - Cannot change settings of current page Started By Dave Madison When looking to manage the settings of the page that is currently active, either by means of the page settings gear via the pencil on bottom of the page OR buy going to the 'Pages' admin page, the current page is not able to be selected to see the settings tabs. I can click on any of the other pages and am able to get to the settings tabs, but the current page is not selectable. The only way to get to that page's settings is to go to a different page on the site and then go to the Pages pa...	3	3238	2	9/13/2019 12:36 PM by Dave Madison
9.4 upgrade error 'Could not load file or assembly' Started By TopCat In several attempts to upgrade my localhost from 9.3.2 to 9.4 using 'DNN_Platform_9.4.0_Upgrade.zip' I get an error when accessing the site after unzipping the files to the server. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) Here is the full error message. Any ideas on the problem Description: An u...	19	13179	4	9/12/2019 10:06 PM by TopCat
Upgrade to 9.4 Fails Started By John Jacobson Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) body {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:normal;font-size: .7em;color:black;} p {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:normal;color:black;margin-top: -5px} b {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:bold;color:black;margin-top: -5px} H1 { font-...	3	3052	2	9/13/2019 3:31 AM by John Jacobson
Upload Files Started By Rodney I'm unable to upload files in dnn html text module after upgrading to 9.3. Works from Site Assets. Do I have to install a new text editor, if so which one should I use and how do I go about doing it Thanks for any help.	7	5261	2	9/11/2019 9:14 PM by Rodney
update DNN 9.1.0 to 9.2.0 version evoq Content Basic Started By Andres the portal after updating it from version 9.1.0 to version 9.2.0, where in version 9.1.0 it loads correctly showing the content correctly, after the update it only shows the default screen. sometimes when installing version 9.2.0 this installation process fails in the newtonsoft	3	2445	0	8/29/2019 3:43 PM by Andres
Upgrading DNN Started By Chris I am attempting to upgrade from DNN 08.00.04 to 09.01.01 (a recommended upgrade step) and the installer fails the with following error. Please help. Upgrading DNN Current Assembly Version: 09.01.01 Current Database Version: 08.00.04 Upgrade Status Report 00:00:00.112 - Upgrading to Version: 09.01.01 00:00:00.162 - Executing Script:09.00.00.SqlDataProvider Server Error in '/' Application. The process cannot access the file 'D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DotNetNukeGlob...	2	3011	0	8/6/2019 10:26 PM by Chris
Developing Dnn.Users or other Modules Started By lukalev Is there a how-to guide for a developer to modify DNN Admin Modules (like Users, Roles, etc). For example if I wanted to add some additional controls to the Persona bar Users module. The same question goes for upgrading core messaging module. How would I start extending it (to show messages specific to url for example). Anything to get me in direction on how to quick start developing DNN Admin modules would be great. Do I download the source, build it and replace the files in my website pro...	5	4298	4	7/8/2019 4:06 PM by lukalev
Upgrading from 7.2.1 to 9.2.2 DNNAjaxPanel error Started By Dirk Teulings Dear readers, We are using dnn 7.2.1, when we want to upgrade tot 9.2.2 we upgrade in this order: 7.4.2 8.0.4 9.1.1 9.2.2 We do have to fix some of our extensions but that does not cause our issue. We go from a working 9.1.1 to a broken 9.2.2 with the following error: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.Web.UI.WebControls.DnnAjaxPanel' from assembly 'DotNetNuke.Web, Version=9.2.2.178, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. -...	5	4069	1	7/15/2019 5:53 AM by Dirk Teulings
Most Stable Version of DNN 9 & Help Me Justify Upgrading Started By H. Hugh-Jones Good morning everyone, Love the new site! My department is trying to build a justification for (finally!) upgrading from 8.x to 9.x. This is a government agency, so we would need to upgrade to the most stable version, not necessarily the most recent. And we're using Evoq Content rather than Platform. (Sorry to invade the Platform forums, but there just aren't any other forums for the paid version) What do you think the most stable version is right now I am looking up the docu...	10	7234	4	6/25/2019 8:53 AM by H. Hugh-Jones

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