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alexismaria

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9/25/2025 1:15 PM

Hi,

We have had problems with the upgrade on one of our websites. Unfortunately it uses an old module, Ventrian News. The error we get when trying upgrade is: "The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks (i.e. <% ... %>)."

What do you suggest we do?

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alexismaria

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9/25/2025 1:17 PM

Just to confirm, we followed the correct path and... ASP.Net 4.8 is installed on the server. We are using SQL Server 2019.

Mariette Knap (SU)

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9/27/2025 4:05 AM

Most modules need work to be able to run on DNN 10. I do not know that needs to be done with Ventrian News but use Github to create an issue

Mitchel Sellers

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9/27/2025 4:26 PM

It looks like some of the maintainers for News Articles are working on a fix for this - https://github.com/ventri...ews-Articles/pull/86

But it has not yet been released.

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