I believe I have come up with a solution to the issue. I made the following change to the DNN core 5.6.3. In the DotNetNuke.Library project. I recompiled and imported my newly created DLL into my project.
I changed line 46 to read:
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Imports System.Web.Compilation
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath
Imports DotNetNuke.Entities.Host
Namespace DotNetNuke.Framework
Public Class AJAX
#Region "Public Methods"
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' AddScriptManager is used internally by the framework to add a ScriptManager control to the page
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Sub AddScriptManager(ByVal objPage As Page)
If GetScriptManager(objPage) Is Nothing Then
Using objScriptManager As Telerik.Web.UI.RadScriptManager = New Telerik.Web.UI.RadScriptManager() With {.ID = "ScriptManager", .EnableScriptGlobalization = True}
If objPage.Form IsNot Nothing Then
Try
objPage.Form.Controls.AddAt(0, objScriptManager)
Catch ex As HttpException
'suppress error adding script manager to support edge-case of module developers custom aspx pages that inherit from basepage and use code blocks
End Try
If HttpContext.Current.Items("System.Web.UI.ScriptManager") Is Nothing Then
HttpContext.Current.Items.Add("System.Web.UI.ScriptManager", True)
End If
End If
End Using
End If
End Sub
Public Shared Function GetScriptManager(ByVal objPage As Page) As ScriptManager
Return TryCast(objPage.FindControl("ScriptManager"), ScriptManager)
End Function
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' IsEnabled can be used to determine if AJAX has been enabled already as we
''' only need one Script Manager per page.
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Function IsEnabled() As Boolean
If HttpContext.Current.Items("System.Web.UI.ScriptManager") Is Nothing Then
Return False
Else
Return CType(HttpContext.Current.Items("System.Web.UI.ScriptManager"), Boolean)
End If
End Function
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' IsInstalled can be used to determine if AJAX is installed on the server
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Function IsInstalled() As Boolean
Return True
End Function
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' Allows a control to be excluded from UpdatePanel async callback
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Sub RegisterPostBackControl(ByVal objControl As Control)
Dim objScriptManager As ScriptManager = GetScriptManager(objControl.Page)
If objScriptManager IsNot Nothing Then
objScriptManager.RegisterPostBackControl(objControl)
End If
End Sub
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' RegisterScriptManager must be used by developers to instruct the framework that AJAX is required on the page
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Sub RegisterScriptManager()
If Not IsEnabled() Then
HttpContext.Current.Items.Add("System.Web.UI.ScriptManager", True)
End If
End Sub
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' RemoveScriptManager will remove the ScriptManager control during Page Render if the RegisterScriptManager has not been called
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Sub RemoveScriptManager(ByVal objPage As Page)
If IsEnabled() = False Then
Dim objControl As Control = objPage.FindControl("ScriptManager")
If Not objControl Is Nothing Then
objPage.Form.Controls.Remove(objControl)
End If
End If
End Sub
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
''' <summary>
''' Wraps a control in an update panel
''' </summary>
''' <remarks>
''' </remarks>
''' <history>
''' </history>
''' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Shared Function WrapUpdatePanelControl(ByVal objControl As Control, ByVal blnIncludeProgress As Boolean) As Control
Dim updatePanel As New UpdatePanel()
updatePanel.ID = objControl.ID & "_UP"
updatePanel.UpdateMode = UpdatePanelUpdateMode.Conditional
Dim objContentTemplateContainer As Control = updatePanel.ContentTemplateContainer
For i As Integer = 0 To objControl.Parent.Controls.Count - 1 'find offset of original control
If objControl.Parent.Controls(i).ID = objControl.ID Then 'if ID matches
objControl.Parent.Controls.AddAt(i, updatePanel) 'insert update panel in that position
objContentTemplateContainer.Controls.Add(objControl) 'inject passed in control into update panel
Exit For
End If
Next
If blnIncludeProgress Then
'create image for update progress control
Dim objImage As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image = New System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image()
objImage.ImageUrl = "~/images/progressbar.gif" 'hardcoded
objImage.AlternateText = "ProgressBar"
Dim updateProgress As New UpdateProgress
updateProgress.AssociatedUpdatePanelID = updatePanel.ID
updateProgress.ID = updatePanel.ID + "_Prog"
updateProgress.ProgressTemplate = New UI.WebControls.LiteralTemplate(objImage)
objContentTemplateContainer.Controls.Add(updateProgress)
End If
Return updatePanel
End Function
#End Region
#Region "Obsolete Methods"
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, Developers can work directly with the UpdatePanel")> _
Public Shared Function ContentTemplateContainerControl(ByVal objUpdatePanel As Object) As Control
Return TryCast(objUpdatePanel, UpdatePanel).ContentTemplateContainer
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, MS AJax is now required for DotNetNuke 5.0. Develoers can create the control directly")> _
Public Shared Function CreateUpdatePanelControl() As Control
Dim updatePanel As New UpdatePanel()
updatePanel.UpdateMode = UpdatePanelUpdateMode.Conditional
Return updatePanel
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, MS AJax is now required for DotNetNuke 5.0. Developers can work directly with the UpdateProgress")> _
Public Shared Function CreateUpdateProgressControl(ByVal AssociatedUpdatePanelID As String) As Control
Dim updateProgress As New UpdateProgress
updateProgress.ID = AssociatedUpdatePanelID + "_Prog"
updateProgress.AssociatedUpdatePanelID = AssociatedUpdatePanelID
Return updateProgress
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, MS AJax is now required for DotNetNuke 5.0. Developers can work directly with the UpdateProgress")> _
Public Shared Function CreateUpdateProgressControl(ByVal AssociatedUpdatePanelID As String, ByVal ProgressHTML As String) As Control
Dim updateProgress As New UpdateProgress
updateProgress.ID = AssociatedUpdatePanelID + "_Prog"
updateProgress.AssociatedUpdatePanelID = AssociatedUpdatePanelID
updateProgress.ProgressTemplate = New UI.WebControls.LiteralTemplate(ProgressHTML)
Return updateProgress
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, MS AJax is now required for DotNetNuke 5.0. Developers can work directly with the UpdateProgress")> _
Public Shared Function CreateUpdateProgressControl(ByVal AssociatedUpdatePanelID As String, ByVal ProgressControl As Control) As Control
Dim updateProgress As New UpdateProgress
updateProgress.ID = AssociatedUpdatePanelID + "_Prog"
updateProgress.AssociatedUpdatePanelID = AssociatedUpdatePanelID
updateProgress.ProgressTemplate = New UI.WebControls.LiteralTemplate(ProgressControl)
Return updateProgress
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.0, MS AJax is now required for DotNetNuke 5.0 and above - value no longer read from Host.EnableAjax")> _
Public Shared Function IsHostEnabled() As Boolean
Return True
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, Replaced by GetScriptManager")> _
Public Shared Function ScriptManagerControl(ByVal objPage As Page) As Control
Return objPage.FindControl("ScriptManager")
End Function
<Obsolete("Deprecated in DNN 5.4, Developers can work directly with the ScriptManager")> _
Public Shared Sub SetScriptManagerProperty(ByVal objPage As Page, ByVal PropertyName As String, ByVal Args() As Object)
Dim scriptManager As ScriptManager = GetScriptManager(objPage)
If scriptManager IsNot Nothing Then
Reflection.SetProperty(scriptManager.GetType(), PropertyName, scriptManager, Args)
End If
End Sub
#End Region
End Class
End Namespace