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. […]
Question: I’m trying to install SMTPQ on Windows Server 2008 only nothing happens. It won’t install the service, no messages, nothing. Answer: Download and install the Chilkat SMTPQ service from this URL: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/downloads_misc.asp The SMTPQ Windows Service is not installed (intentionally). To complete the install, click on the Windows Start menu button (bottom left of […]
Cert and CertStore Fix: Auto-cleanup of private key in \Documents and Settings\{User}\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-* when calling Cert.LoadPfxData or Cert.LoadPfxFile. (.NET) Cert.Dispose and CertStore.Dispose will clear internal object and potentially remove private key file if it was temporarily created via LoadPfxData/LoadPfxFile. Email Object Added SetFromMimeBytes method — allowing an email to be loaded directly from a byte […]
This post pertains to using the Chilkat Self-Extracting EXE utility. The goal is to create a self-extracting EXE such that the files are unzipped into the directory where the EXE is located. To do this, the %CD% environment variable is used in a DOS command line. The intent is to use the -d option with […]
A Chilkat customer experienced the following behavior with Exchange Server in response to an IMAP login. This is the (edited) contents of the IMAP object’s SessionLog property: —-INFO—- Connecting to IMAP server at ***:143 —-IMAP RESPONSE—- * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready. —-IMAP REQUEST—- aaab LOGIN “***” —-IMAP RESPONSE—- aaab BAD Command […]
This page explains Active and Passive mode in the FTP protocol. FTP Active vs. Passive Mode
ASP: Iterate over Files and Directories in Filesystem Directory Tree SQL Server: Iterate over Files and Directories in Filesystem Directory Tree C#: Iterate over Files and Directories in Filesystem Directory Tree C++: Iterate over Files and Directories in Filesystem Directory Tree MFC: Iterate over Files and Directories in Filesystem Directory Tree C: Iterate over Files […]
There are two ways to reference an ActiveX in Visual Basic 6.0. The first is to select “Project–>References” from the VB6 menu. The second way is to select “Project–>Components…” from the VB6 menu. Important: You should do one or the other, but not both. Which do you choose? Use “Project–>References” if you are going to […]
ASP: Convert PuTTY Private Key (ppk) to OpenSSH (pem) SQL Server: Convert PuTTY Private Key (ppk) to OpenSSH (pem) C#: Convert PuTTY Private Key (ppk) to OpenSSH (pem) C++: Convert PuTTY Private Key (ppk) to OpenSSH (pem) MFC: Convert PuTTY Private Key (ppk) to OpenSSH (pem) C: Convert PuTTY Private Key (ppk) to OpenSSH (pem) […]
If a Chilkat method fails because a file was not found, the LastErrorText will contain information such as this: ChilkatLog: LoadFromFile: DllDate: Sep 1 2009 filename: myCert.cer Failed to open file (2) filename: myCert.cer currentWorkingDirectory: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv osErrorInfo: The system cannot find the file specified. WindowsError: 0x2 Failed. There are two key pieces of information to […]
Question: In your examples online, we have noticed that .Dispose() is never called after using Chilkat classes (we are writing in C#). Is calling .Dispose() recommended? Does your code not need to destroy any native resources or handles that would normally be cleaned up in the Dispose method (the IDisposeable interface) ? Answer: For objects […]
