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: My question is regarding the SharedLib when initializing pkcs11 module. Is the smartcard vendor’s low-level lib (dll or so) required to be able to communicate with a smartcard or do you have some kind of generic lib or driver to achieve this? Answer: This is a good question. On a non-Windows system, Chilkat would […]
Here are some notes regarding OAuth2 Redirect URI’s for Microsoft Azure AD apps. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/reply-url A few important points: You can add http://127.0.0.1, and it is preferred over http://localhost because of misconfigured firewalls or hosts file etc. 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address and localhost is just translated into 127.0.0.1. The only pitfall is that you […]
Previous Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-91-release-notes/ Next Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-93-release-notes/ Chilkat v9.5.0.92 Release Notes PDF: Fixed some issues with LTV signatures, where Acrobat DC did not consider the signed PDF Long Term Validation enabled. XMLDsig: Added the ability to produce and validate ZATCA compatible XML signatures. Http: Added the ReceivedCertReq boolean property. It is set to true (non-zero) if […]
1. Log in to your Intuit Developer Account Go to https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/homepage and Sign In. 2. Go to the Dashboard Click on the “Dashboard” link in the top right of the web page. 3. Click on the blue “+ Create an app” link/button. 4. Select the “Quickbooks Online and Payments” platform. 5. Give your app a […]
Carbon Black is security software that can block your application from running unless you whitelist it. Here’s a description of how a Chilkat user discovered that Carbon Black was the cause of his PowerBuilder application not working. We figured out why the executable could not retrieve a token from Box. It was not a firewall/network […]
This post documents how to implement Modern Authentication (OAuth2) for Office365 for the IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. The very first thing you’ll need to do is to create an “App Registration” in Azure Active Directory. See this Chilkat blog post for Instructions for Setting Up an App Registration in Azure for Modern Authentication for […]
1) Go to https://portal.azure.com/#home and login to your Microsoft account. then go to Azure Active Directory. 2) Click On App Registrations * Copy your Tenant ID, you’ll need it later. 3) Click on “+ New registration” 4) Name your App and Click Register. Give it a name. For the Redirect URI, select “Web” and […]
1) Go to https://portal.azure.com/#home and login to your Microsoft account. Then click on Azure Active Directory 2) Click on “App registrations” Copy your Tenant ID, you’ll need it later. 3) Click on “+ New registration” 4) Name Your App and Click Register Give it a name (can be anything) and click Register. Given that the […]
Certain problems regarding the signing of XML documents for TicketBAI (Basque Government) and FacturaE in Spain have been fixed. At the time of writing this blog post (31-July-2022), Chilkat v9.5.0.92 is not yet released. You may send email to info@chilkatsoft.com to request a pre-release. Please indicate your programming language, operating system, etc. so that Chilkat […]
Chilkat added support for the Bit4id Digital-DNA Identity device. (https://www.bit4id.com/en/devices/digitaldna/) The easiest way to use the device for signing within applications is via the Chilkat.Cert.LoadFromSmartcard method. At the time of this writing (28-July-2022) the latest version of Chilkat (v9.5.0.91) does not yet support this device. If v9.5.0.92 or later is not yet released, you can […]
