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. […]
SSH Port Forwarding (or tunneling) allows you to tunnel any TCP connection through an SSH server. For example, consider a database connection: A direct TCP connection: DbClient <—-TCP—-> DbServer An SSH tunneled connection: DbClient <—-TCP—-> SshClient <====SSH====> SshServer <—-TCP—-> DbServer In a tunneled connection, the application connects through an SshClient to an SSH server and […]
ASP: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) SQL Server: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C#: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C++: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) MFC: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) Delphi: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via […]
ASP: SSH Tunnel for Database Connection (such as ADO, ODBC, etc.) SQL Server: SSH Tunnel for Database Connection (such as ADO, ODBC, etc.) C#: SSH Tunnel for Database Connection (such as ADO, ODBC, etc.) C++: SSH Tunnel for Database Connection (such as ADO, ODBC, etc.) MFC: SSH Tunnel for Database Connection (such as ADO, ODBC, […]
Question: I have a need to unzip files from zip files created with Chilkat library, but I would like the library to allow me to specify the ‘SaveAs’ name of the file being unzipped. I have not seen how to do this in the examples or the API documentation. Could you provide any insight into this for […]
The major new features/fixes for the 8-February-2009 release are: SOCKS4, SOCKS5 Proxy Support for POP3, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, MHT, HTTP, and Socket. The following properties have been added to each component for SOCKS4/SOCKS5 support: SocksHostname, SocksPort, SocksUsername, SocksPassword, and SocksVersion (4 or 5). Setting these properties to non-empty values is all that is required to […]
Any date/time property in Chilkat’s Perl implementation is returned as a SYSTEMTIME object. Here is sample code that demonstrates getting the ValidTo and ValidFrom property from a digital certificate: $sysTime0 = new chilkat::SYSTEMTIME(); $cert->get_ValidFrom($sysTime0); $sysTime1 = new chilkat::SYSTEMTIME(); $cert->get_ValidTo($sysTime1); print “Valid from ” . $sysTime0->{wMonth} . “/” . $sysTime0->{wDay} . “/” . $sysTime0->{wYear} . ” […]
This blog post is an attempt to explain the concepts of asynchronous socket programming using the Chilkat Socket class/component. There are five types of socket operations that may occur asynchronously: Socket read. Socket write. Connect to remote hostname:port Accept connection from client DNS lookup A synchronous socket operation is easy to understand. If you call […]
Question: Why is it the return is blank when encrypting chinese characters? Here’s a snippet of my code: crypt.KeyLength := 256; crypt.SecretKey := Password; crypt.CryptAlgorithm := ‘aes’; crypt.EncodingMode := ‘base64’; OutPutStr := crypt.EncryptStringENC(StringToEncrypt); Answer: Strings in some programming languages such as Visual Basic, C#, VB.NET, Delphi, Foxpro, etc. should be thought of as objects. The […]
SFtp: dispinterface _IChilkatSFtpEvents { properties: methods: [id(1), helpstring(“method PercentDone”)] HRESULT PercentDone([in] long pctDone); [id(2), helpstring(“method AbortCheck”)] HRESULT AbortCheck([out] long *abort); [id(3), helpstring(“method UploadRate”)] HRESULT UploadRate([in] long byteCount, [in] long bytesPerSec); [id(4), helpstring(“method DownloadRate”)] HRESULT DownloadRate([in] long byteCount, [in] long bytesPerSec); }; Zip: dispinterface _IChilkatZip2Events { properties: methods: HRESULT UnzipPercentDone([in] long percentDone, [out] long *abort); HRESULT […]
ActiveX components and controls are used in many programming languages, each of which has it’s own way of handling event callbacks. This blog post provides helpful hints about how to receive event callbacks from an ActiveX component. To receive the event, you must bind the ActiveX (also referred to as the COM server) event to […]
