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.  […]

How to Convert Speech to Text using Google Speech-to-Text REST API

June 9, 2023 in Uncategorized

There are two possible ways to write the code. (1) Upload the Audio File to Google Cloud Storage First write code to upload the audio file to Google Cloud Storage. For example, see: AutoIt Upload File to Google Cloud Storage C Upload File to Google Cloud Storage Chilkat2-Python Upload File to Google Cloud Storage C++ […]

How to Send application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST to a URL with some Params

June 9, 2023 in Uncategorized

Question I need to get a token: URL TEST : “https://apitest.dtes.mh.gob.sv/seguridad/auth” Method : POST Parameters Headers Content-type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded Body user (string) pwd (string) Answer See the online tutorial explaining common HTTP requests at Format of Common HTTP Requests. Specifically, look here: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/http_post_url_encoded.asp

Does XML Convert to JSON in an Unambiguous Way?

June 9, 2023 in Uncategorized

Chilkat does not provide functionality for XML-to-JSON conversion (or the reverse) because XML does not convert to JSON in an unambiguous way. XML and JSON have different structural and data modeling principles, leading to potential challenges and ambiguities during the conversion process. Some factors that contribute to the potential ambiguities are: Hierarchical vs. Flat Structure: […]

LoadPfxFile Takes a Long Time to Load?

June 9, 2023 in Uncategorized

Question: I’m using the LoadPfxFile method of the cert object and it takes about 4 or 5 seconds in load the PFX certificate. On the other hand, if I sign the document using an installed certificate, it’s instantaneous. Why does LoadPfxFile take so much time? Is there a way to reduce the loadPfxFile time? Answer: […]