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 am using Chilkat in a PowerBuilder 9 (ANSI) application where I receive a JSON from a request. The JSON contains binary data (a file) encoded in Base64. I am able to handle and save this data to disk using the BinData component. However, I am struggling to pass that binary information to a […]
The architecture of the Chilkat .NET Core assembly is different than that for the .NET Framework in the following ways. Chilkat for .NET Framework Downloaded from https://www.chilkatsoft.com/downloads_DotNet.asp can alternatively be used directly from NuGet: such as https://www.nuget.org/packages/chilkat-x64 The assembly DLL is a mixed-mode assembly, which means the outer layer is managed, but the inner core […]
This blog post is a summary of information about the PROXKey token… Drivers, Manuals, and Brochure: https://proxkeytoken.in/download.php Supports PKCS#11 V2.10 Microsoft CAPI 2.0 Microsoft CNG but apparently not ScMinidriver Microsoft CSP provider name: PROXKey CSP India V3.0 ATR: 3b6d000057443641018693111184124934 PKCS11 driver DLL: C:\Windows\System32\SignatureP11.dll Repository for various token drivers, including WatchData PROXKey v2 and v3 drivers […]
Chilkat released a new tool at https://tools.chilkat.io/soap_wsdl_generate_code to generate sample source code and SOAP request / response XML from an online WSDL.
The answer is No and Yes. Angular is a client-side JavaScript framework, which means that it primarily runs on the client side (in the user’s browser) rather than on the web server. When a user accesses a web page built with Angular, the Angular application is downloaded to the user’s browser, and the majority of […]
This blog post describes the case where your application asks Chilkat to produce an LTV-enabled PDF signature by specifying “ltvOcsp” in the signing attributes, yet the signed PDF as viewed in Adobe Acrobat does not show the signature as being LTV enabled. For example, in Adobe Acrobat, an LTV enabled signature looks like this: You […]
In Android, network permissions are necessary for applications that want to establish network connections and use sockets to communicate over the internet. These permissions are declared in the AndroidManifest.xml file, and they inform the Android system about the specific capabilities an application requires. For applications that use sockets and perform network-related operations, the following permissions […]
Question: I need to sign a PDF with a certificate and a signed hash returned from a 3rd party. Answer: It’s possible, and it’s a feature that was introduced in the latest version of Chilkat (v9.5.0.96). However, it requires a well-defined REST API (or something similar) where Chilkat can make the REST API call from […]
Question: In my Visual FoxPro program, accessing the IsConnected property on a ChilkatSocket hangs when a “ReceiveUntilByteBdAsync” is run immediately after connecting the socket. Here is a minimal reproducible example: LOCAL loSocket loSocket = CreateObject(‘Chilkat_9_5_0.Socket’) loSocket.connect(‘127.0.0.1’, 8945, .f., 5000) &&used external socket server to be sure it was unrelated loBinData = CreateObject(‘Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData’) loTask = loSocket.ReceiveUntilByteBdAsync(ASC(‘Z’), […]
Question: While trying to send an email with an attachment of size 9MB from my application, I get an error. Interestingly, the file gets delivered to the email address still we get the error in the application. Answer: Looking at the MailMan.LastErrorText for the call to SendEmail, we can see this: ChilkatLog: SendEmail: … ReadTimeout: […]
