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. […]
This blog post talks about the Let’s Encrypt “DST Root CA X3 Expiration” that happened today on 30-Sep-2021. See these articles for a detailed description: Extending Android Device Compatibility for Let’s Encrypt Certificates and DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021) Because the DST Root CA X3 trust anchor cert expired, problems with Chilkat HTTP […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.88 Release Notes Smart Card/ USB Token support: Greatly improved internals for automatically recognizing and handling smart cards and USB tokens from many different vendors. Smart Card – PKCS11 and Cert.LoadFromSmartcard now works on Linux and MacOSX systems. Also should work for Alpine Linux. Cert.LoadFromSmartcard […]
Question: I’m am new to QuickBooks having only dealt with desktop version in the past. Aside Delphi DLL examples about QuickBooks that I guess are only related to the desktop version of the accounting software only, is there any example regarding the QuickBooks online version? Answer: I’m looking at the QuickBooks API reference documentation, such […]
This example demonstrates how to use Chilkat to connect to many IMAP accounts in parallel to do something..
You passed the correct login/password to login to imap.gmail.com, but you still get an “Invalid credentials” error. What gives? For example, you called Chilkat’s Imap.Login method, passing the correct login/password, and the imap.LastErrorText contains this: authenticateLogin(110ms): loginImap(110ms): ConnectionType: SSL/TLS ImapCmdSent: aaab LOGIN “you@gmail.com” getCompleteResponse(110ms): ImapCmdResp: aaab NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure) –getCompleteResponse –loginImap isOK: serverResponse: […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes Added the SCard class, which is a wrapper around the Resource Manager API of the PC/SC architecture for smart cards. On Windows it is a wrapper around the WinSCard functions implemented in the winscard.dll. On other systems (such as Linux) it is […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes 10-Feb-2021 Pdf: Immediately after releasing v9.5.0.85, it was discovered that many PDF’s had the following error when viewed in Acrobat DC after signing: “”The signature byte range is invalid””. It was deemed important […]
This post is about Xero OAuth2 for desktop apps, but the same concepts generally apply to all other applications (REST API apps) using OAuth2. What many developers don’t initially realize (if new to OAuth2) is that an “App” needs to be defined in the developer portal for the service (i.e. Xero in this case). For […]
Question: Do you have a way to ship both the x64 and x86 dlls and have the application decide which gets loaded? (I believe this is what SQLite does). I’ve got a native app that is packaged via a ‘Packaging Project’ and is then distributed via the Windows App store. Because of this distribution method, […]
Problem: The following command: Add-Type -Path “C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll” results in the following errors when attempting to run in PowerShell: + Add-Type -Path”C:\chilkat\chilkatdotnet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.d … + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidData : (Microsoft.Power…peCompilerError:AddTypeCompilerError) [Add-Type], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SOURCE_CODE_ERROR,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand Add-Type : Impossible d’ajouter un type. Des erreurs de compilation se sont produites. Au caractère C:\ProgramData\C1B2.ps1:1 : 1 + […]
