All of those DLLs except for two of them are from extensions not included with the core of DNN. You can follow the instructions on the referenced DNN Docs article for the removal of core DNN Telerik dependencies, but you will need to upgrade some of the other modules to their respective latest versions to remove Telerik from them. I believe all except DNN.Events should have Telerik removed in latest released versions. However, the DNN.Events module still has a Telerik dependency and it is a significant effort required to remove Telerik from it. So you should consider using another solution for events. There are some great commercial options out there for this (e.g., EasyDNNnews).

I hope this helps!

Hey Tom:

Step 1 in the upgrade process should be to uninstall ALL extensions that are no longer in use. Step 2 of that first step is to look in the file system to be sure their respective file(s) and folder(s) are removed from the file system. (Example: The DLL might still be in the Bin folder, or the DesktopModules folder is still there because of manually uploaded files at some point in time.)

Step 2 is to upgrade any third-party extensions you may still be using on the site.

Then, start upgrading DNN. 😉

Yeah, most of those modules can be updated to a newer version that does not use Telerik. You should find those by searching their name in the list of repositories at https://github.com/orgs/D...mmunity/repositories

Like David said, Events is a bit more complex and if it is easy to replace with some other solution, I would go with that. Should it not be easy to replace, then it is open source, it could be made Telerik free if people contribute to that change, either by sending code or sponsoring a developer to code the required changes.

Thanks for your responses - much appreciated!
For Events, yes we already use EasyDNNNews and have started to replace our instances of Events with the EasyDNNNews Calendar which works great.
Announcements and Feedback look like they have newer versions on GitHub (announcements 7.2.2 and Feedback 6.7.0), assuming those don't use Telerik.
For Links and Messageing, we'll just remove those
Do you know what 'dotnetnuke.modules.userdefinedtable.dll' is?

Thanks again!
Tom

Posted By Tom Melkonian on 5/28/2024 12:07 PM

Do you know what 'dotnetnuke.modules.userdefinedtable.dll' is?

Thanks again!
Tom

That's the old name of the Forms and List module.  :) 

 

Posted By Tom Melkonian on 5/28/2024 3:07 PM
Thanks for your responses - much appreciated!
For Events, yes we already use EasyDNNNews and have started to replace our instances of Events with the EasyDNNNews Calendar which works great.
Announcements and Feedback look like they have newer versions on GitHub (announcements 7.2.2 and Feedback 6.7.0), assuming those don't use Telerik.
For Links and Messageing, we'll just remove those
Do you know what 'dotnetnuke.modules.userdefinedtable.dll' is?

Thanks again!
Tom

Glad to hear EDN is working for your events migration.

Similar to Announcements and Feedback, the DNN.Links module is Telerik free and can be found at https://github.com/DNNCom...y/DNN.Links/releases

Messaging can be removed following Step 6, 7, & 9 of the Telerik Removal guide at https://docs.dnncommunity...k-removal/index.html

 

Posted By Will Strohl on 5/28/2024 12:12 PM

Posted By Tom Melkonian on 5/28/2024 12:07 PM

Do you know what 'dotnetnuke.modules.userdefinedtable.dll' is?

Thanks again!
Tom

That's the old name of the Forms and List module.  :) 

 

 

Ah, OK. good to know. Thanks neighbor!

Posted By David Poindexter on 5/28/2024 1:00 PM

Posted By Tom Melkonian on 5/28/2024 3:07 PM
Thanks for your responses - much appreciated!
For Events, yes we already use EasyDNNNews and have started to replace our instances of Events with the EasyDNNNews Calendar which works great.
Announcements and Feedback look like they have newer versions on GitHub (announcements 7.2.2 and Feedback 6.7.0), assuming those don't use Telerik.
For Links and Messageing, we'll just remove those
Do you know what 'dotnetnuke.modules.userdefinedtable.dll' is?

Thanks again!
Tom

Glad to hear EDN is working for your events migration.

Similar to Announcements and Feedback, the DNN.Links module is Telerik free and can be found at https://github.com/DNNCom...y/DNN.Links/releases

Messaging can be removed following Step 6, 7, & 9 of the Telerik Removal guide at https://docs.dnncommunity...k-removal/index.html

 

Yes EDN is great and we're already using it so I'm happy with that solution

Thanks for the info about Links (I was assuming that was going away)

-Tom

 

 

Posted By Tom Melkonian on 5/28/2024 8:20 PM

Thanks for the info about Links (I was assuming that was going away)

You are welcome.  While it is still available, I believe most people have moved away from it in favor for a structured content solution. One less module to maintain.  😉