Only one instance of a ScriptManager can be added to the page

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Nevin Mathai picture Nevin Mathai · Jan 3, 2010 · Viewed 25.3k times · Source

I had an ASP UpdatePanel to update a gridview which worked fine, now I wanted to also use AjaxControlToolkit for some of the controls in there, but after wiring up everything when I run I get an error

  "Only one instance of a ScriptManager can be added to the page."

inspite of the fact that I commented off the ASP ScriptManager and am using the toolkitscriptmanager. however please note that I am still using the ASP UpdatePanels.

 <asp:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="server">
                    </asp:ToolkitScriptManager>

                  <!-- <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
                                 </asp:ScriptManager>-->

Any ideas as to what might be going wrong here?

Answer

Eilon picture Eilon · Jan 3, 2010

You're using an HTML comment to hide an ASP.NET server tag. Use a server comment instead:

<%-- <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server"> 
                             </asp:ScriptManager> --%>

ASP.NET ignores HTML comments just like it ignores all tags without a runat="server" on them or that don't start with <%.

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