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.  […]

Matching DES Encryption in Java and VBScript

May 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

This page shows both Java JCE DES encryption examples, as well as examples using the Chilkat Encryption component in both Java and VBScript. Each of these examples produces identical output: The string: ABC123 encrypts to 6DA02B6AE1EA32D8 (as a hexidecimalized string) Java bytes-to-hex Encoding Utility Function public static String toHex (byte buf[]) { StringBuffer strbuf = […]

Quoted-Printable Encoding Definition

May 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

Quoted-printable, or QP encoding, is an encoding using printable characters (i.e. alphanumeric and the equals sign “=”) to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path. It is defined as a MIME content transfer encoding for use in Internet e-mail. The basic Internet e-mail transmission protocol, SMTP, supports only ASCII characters (see also 8BITMIME). MIME […]

HTTP ActiveX to Automatically Detect Settings

May 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

Question: How can I use your HTTP ActiveX library in VB to download a file with my connection settings “automatically detect settings” instead of proxy settings? Answer: Set the HTTP object’s UseIeProxy property = 1. This will cause the proxy host/port used by Internet Explorer (if set) to be used by the Chilkat HTTP component.

SMTP 550 No such user here

May 2, 2008 in Uncategorized

This was just discovered with one SMTP server: the error message: RCPT TO: <somebody@somewhere.com> 550 <somebody@somewhere.com> No such user here Was caused by forgetting to authenticate with the SMTP server.  The SMTP server requires authentication in order to relay email to another domain (in other words, it’s protected against being an open-relay).  The error message […]

Convert MIME to Plain-Text?

May 2, 2008 in Uncategorized

Question: Is it possible to convert MIME to plain-text? Answer: The Chilkat MIME and/or Email API’s may be used to extract the plain-text body (or bodies) and/or HTML bodies from a MIME message. If a MIME-part is already plain-text, no conversion is necessary. It’s simply a matter of using the Chilkat MIME or Email API […]