We have a web app running on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit version with .NET 2.0. It uses Aspose.Words to produce consolidated Word documents (using a blank.doc template) via three main tasks (which can be performed independently):
- creating a new Word documents from SQL Server data
- opening a user-uploaded Word document
- combining the SQL server data and uploaded Word docs into one file
Immediately after deploying the .NET 2.0 Service Pack 1 in late December, we have hit problems. The code using Aspose.Words that previously worked correctly, now throws errors with both the older version (the one we began using last summer) and the latest which we installed and tested prior to this post.
Errors with Aspose.Words version 4.2.6.0 on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit (.NET 2.0 SP1)
"Exception message: The document appears to be corrupted and cannot be loaded. "
However, the Word document is not corrupt and can be manually opened in Word via share to server folder where it resides
Errors with latest version 4.4.3.0 on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit (.NET 2.0 SP1)
Following basic Aspose pre-support post advice, we upgraded to latest 4.4.3.0 using our dev server as a control. Dev server is also Windows 2003 64-bit with .NET 2.0 SP1 installed. This time, we get different errors for the same kinds of functions
"Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
Attached are event log errors for the different versions, plus sample documents and our code page (suffixed .aspx.vb).
A similar-sounding problem with Aspose.Words 4.4.3.0 was posted in Post ID 107476 but I can't see any resolution on that thread yet.
It is definitely a 64-bit problem triggered for us by the application of the .NET 2.0 Service Pack 1 in December. Immediately that was installed, we began to get these Aspose.Words errors. Our developers can't reproduce these errors on Windows 2003 server 32-bit with .NET 2.0 SP1.
A prompt response would be most welcomed. Thanks in advance for your help.
Jonathan Eaton