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.  […]

VB6 – Compile error: User-defined type not defined

September 21, 2009 in Uncategorized

If you see the following error on a Dim statement such as the following: Dim sa as New CkStringArray Make sure you add a reference to the appropriate Chilkat ActiveX. Select “Project–>References” from the VB6 menu and then check the checkbox next to the Chilkat ActiveX component to be referenced. (Select “Chilkat Util” for the […]

UNC Path — Could not load assembly — Failed to grant minimum permission requests.

September 21, 2009 in Uncategorized

The following error can occur when trying to load  ChilkatDotNet2.dll from a UNC path located on another computer. Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet2, Version=9.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb5fc1fc52ef09bd’ or one of its dependencies. Failed to grant minimum permission requests. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131417) It is because the .NET runtime does not give full trust to […]

SFTP Path Syntax

September 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

The SFTP protocol does not specify how absolute paths should be formatted.  For example, suppose your SFTP server runs on a Windows system and you wish to open (on the remote server) “C:\Temp\someFile.txt”.   Passing the exact string “C:\Temp\someFile.txt” to OpenFile will likely result in failure.  Different SSH/SFTP servers may expect different path conventions.  To discover […]

ActiveX on Windows Server 2003 and SQL 2005?

September 17, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I want my web hosting company to install your XML and Encryption controls on the server so I can use the ASP code. They are asking me the following question. “Can you verify with them that they support Windows Server 2003 and SQL 2005? IO am not seeing these listed on their site.” Answer: […]

Understanding GMail’s Behavior

September 16, 2009 in Uncategorized

This blog post will explain GMail in a way that will help you understand it’s seemingly strange behavior. The question that prompted this post is as follows: I am able to read mails from GMail mailbox using MailMan object. Is there any options to delete a mail permanently from GMail mailbox? When I am using […]

SocketError: WSAECONNRESET An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

September 16, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: What is this error message? How can I avoid such error message in the future? ChilkatLog: ChangeRemoteDir: DllDate: Sep 1 2009 UnlockPrefix: ABC123FTP Username: something Component: .NET 2.0 dir: / SocketError: WSAECONNRESET An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. Error sending on socket send_size: 7 Failed to send CWD command Failed. […]

Chilkat C++ Libs – Link and Maintain Single EXE?

September 16, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I am developing a single EXE in C++ that doesn’t make use of any external libraries and including MFC. Can I add your zip libaries to my application and still maintain the application as a single EXE? Answer: Yes, the Chilkat C++ libs may be linked directly into your application.  This results in a single […]

Improving MHT Download Performance with Caching

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I’m spidering search results and trying to archive hundreds of pages to MHT’s.  I’m testing your control and found it much slower than Internet Explorer. Also, while I’m not doing this now, is this control threadsafe if I ever wanted to try that to improve performance? Answer: Internet Explorer is faster because it uses multiple […]

SFTP and SSH: Separate Connections Required?

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I have an application using your code that does several SSH and SFTP command during processing. Can I just establish a connection, authenticate passwords and the other setup steps once and then use that connection throughout the program or do I need to perform these steps in every function? If I can do I […]

Exchange Server – POP3, IMAP, and SMTP

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: May I ask if is possible use Chilkat components to connect to MS Exchange 6.5 and higher ? I am thinking about purchase of MailMan component or other as it is, however I would like read some example in C# for reading emails from Exchange and sending emails via Exchange after connecting to the […]