The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
Here’s a Classic ASP example using Chilkat to read an incoming JSON request body (such as from a POST), load it into a Chilkat JsonObject, and then write the JSON to an application/json response: <% If Request.TotalBytes > 0 Then ‘ Read the JSON request body into a Chilkat BinData object. set bd = Server.CreateObject(“Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData”) […]
Question: How can JSON be processed in a case-insensitive manner? Rant followed by Answer: JSON is intended to be case-sensitive. XML is the same. Similar to Java, C, C++, etc. Names are case-sensitive. Except, of course, there are knuckleheads out there that don’t understand the fundamental specifications and as a result introduce complexity into systems […]
