Word 2000 runs much slower than 2003 on .net application

[JerryK]

Hi,

I have a Windows Service written in VB.net. I run this service on a Windows
2003 Server system with Word 2000 installed and on a development system
running XP and Word 2003. Word is used to translate some document to HTML
and text using SaveAS(). The app runs approximately 10 times faster on the
development system and most of the delta appears to be in execution of the
Word calls.. I am at a loss to explain this difference. Does anyone know
if there are performance issues with Windows 2000 and .net applications? If
so, a pointer to some documentation describing the issues would be very
helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Jerry

 

[Randall Arnold]

It's my understanding MS recommends Office XP and up when run from a .NET
development environment. They have designed Interops for those that
facilitate COM-to-.NET translations and I don't think there is one for Office
2000. That may explain the performance hit you note.

Randall Arnold