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 have seen that your lib support OAuth2 for DataFlex-Framework but only for Desktop-Clients. Is it correct or is there any support for DataFlex-Web-Applications? Answer: The functionality Chilkat provides in desktop applications for the OAuth2 authorization code flow, is to make your desktop application behave as a temporary web server to receive the single […]
This post shows how to register an Azure Application that supports OAuth2 Client Credentials. 1. Register an Application You’ll most likely choose a single-tenant application. (See explanation of Azure single-tenant vs multi-tenant applications.) You can leave the Redirect URI blank. 2. Note your Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID Make note of your client […]
The distinction between single-tenant and multi-tenant Azure applications lies in how these applications handle user access and authentication across different Azure AD tenants (directories). Single-Tenant Azure Application: A single-tenant application is designed to serve users from a single Azure AD tenant (directory). It is registered in and can authenticate users only from that specific Azure […]
OAuth2 Client Credentials can be used for authentication when you own the application, and you also own the account (such as Office 365, or Google, etc.) that your application will access. In other words, YOUR application is simply accessing resources in YOUR account, and YOU are the application user (or your application is running as […]
Previous Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-95-release-notes/ Next Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-97-release-notes/ Chilkat v9.5.0.96 Release Notes DNS: Created a new Dns class for managing DNS nameservers to be used by Chilkat, and for doing DNS queries. It is a singleton class that allows an application to select the DNS nameservers used throughout Chilkat. The term “singleton” means that all Chilkat DNS […]
Demonstrate the simplest possible Electron program using Chilkat on Windows. (using Electron 25, which requires Node.js 18.17) 1. Open a GitBash shell to get a command prompt. 2. Make sure you have node 18.17 $ node -v v18.17.0 3. Create a new directory for a new application. $ cd /c/temp $ mkdir helloWorld $ cd […]
A Chilkat customer is getting this error when trying to validate the signed invoice on the ZATCA XML online validator (Sandbox) category : XSD_SCHEMA_ERROR code :SAXParseException message : Schema validation failed; XML does not comply with UBL 2.1 standards in line with ZATCA specifications The solution is to examine the XML using the UBL 2.1 […]
Previous Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-94-release-notes/ Next Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-96-release-notes/ Chilkat v9.5.0.95 Release Notes PDF: Greatly improved the appearance of non-English text in visible PDF signatures. SFTP: The HostKeyFingerprint property will now correctly return the ssh-ed25519 fingerprint, such as “ssh-ed25519 256 da:7b:ce:4f:d7:56:5e:11:a1:a0:fc:74:dd:4d:50:da”, for cases when an Ed25519 host key is used in the connection. Mime: Mime bodies having the […]
In the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol, the “FROM” header field and the “MAIL FROM” command in the SMTP session serve different purposes and play distinct roles in the process of sending an email message: FROM Header Field: The “FROM” header field is part of the email message itself and is used to indicate […]
The Chilkat.OAuth2 class is designed for desktop applications, not server-side web applications. To explain further: The call to OAuth2.StartAuth does 2 things: Returns a URL you’ll open in a browser to interactively get authorization from the service’s account owner. Starts a background thread to act as a web server for the redirect request that will […]
