Chilkat v11.4.0 Release Notes

Pinned April 1, 2026

  ✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]

Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  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 […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

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 […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

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.  […]

Send Email from Hotmail.com, Live.com, or Outlook.com

October 1, 2024 in Microsoft Email

Question:  I want my desktop application (or script) to send email from my Hotmail.com account (or my Live.com or Outlook.com account).  My application will connect to the SMTP server for hotmail.com, authenticate using OAuth2, and send the email.  I want to use Chilkat’s MailMan class to do it.  I’m completely lost.  Where do I even […]

Minimizing Time to Send Email

December 20, 2017 in Uncategorized

Programmers using Chilkat to send email can do some simple things, and can avoid common mistakes to optimize the time it takes to send an email. 1) A common mistake is when a programmer calls mailman.VerifySmtpConnection and mailman.VerifySmtpLogin prior to actually sending the email. The intent of the Verify methods is for an application to […]