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. […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes 26-Oct-2020 Cert: Added the ExtendedKeyUsage property. 4-Nov-2020 XmlDSigGen: Fixed problem when X509Type property includes “SubjectName” AND the signing certificate has a subject name that includes the ‘&’ char. 4-Nov-2020 TLS 1.3: Fixed the […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes 17-Jul-2020 CSR: Added the AddSan method to allow for 1 or more Subject Alternative Names to be added to the CSR that is generated. 25-Aug-2020 Tar: Added the ClearDirRootsAndFiles method. 10-Sep-2020 Email: Fixed […]
This blog post covers from start to finish the process for getting a desktop application working with GMail using the IMAP protocol with OAuth2 authentication. Start here: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials (1) The first step is to create credentials. Your app is a desktop application. HOWEVER, you will be creating credentials as if your app is a web […]
If Apple Mail displays the warning “Unable to verify message signature”, and when clicking details it says: The digital signature is incorrect. The message may have been tampered with or corrupted since signed by (sender’s name). the reason is due to a bug in Apple Mail (possibly introduced in a recent version of MacOSX). See […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release Notes 25-Mar-2020 SHA3: Added the SHA3 hash algorithms: sha3-224, sha3-256, sha3-384, sha3-512. The SHA3 hash algorithms may generally be used in any property or method of any Chilkat class where a hash algorithm is […]
Question: I need to setup a page in Classic ASP to serve as a webhook endpoint listener in Classic ASP The form product we are using (Paperform) posts the data to our endpoint as a JSON post payload. https://help.paperform.co/en/articles/2073207-how-to-use-webhooks Submission payload Webhooks POST a JSON payload on submission to the webhook URL. The JSON payload looks […]
A Chilkat customer uses Chilkat HTTP to send REST API requests to a popular IP Geolocation service. The REST API requests worked a few times, but then started failing with this error information in Http.LastErrorText: ConnectFailReason: Connection rejected A few possible causes for a connection being rejected are: – A firewall (software or hardware), such […]
Question: I’m trying to send email using SMTP via smtp.office365.com, and I get this error: 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SendAsDeniedException.MapiExceptionSendAsDenied; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Cannot submit message. 0.35250:0A001485, 1.36674:0A000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:02000000, 1.44866:59020000, 1.36674:0E000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:5E020000, 1.44866:F8000000, 16.55847:BC030000, 17.43559:0000000024020000000000000000000000000000, 20.52176:140FFA8B1500001000000000, 20.50032:140FFA8B8517001000000000, 0.35180:F1030000, 255.23226:09000000, 255.27962:0A000000, 255.27962:0E000000, 255.31418:F1030000, 0.35250:0300C981, 1.36674:0A000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:02000000, 1.44866:3A000000, […]
Problem: A Chilkat FoxPro programmer was calling Rest.FullRequestSbAsync with a 3MB request. It failed with a WSAECONNABORTED error message. However, calling Rest.FullRequestSb works fine. Why? Answer: When the async version of a method is called, Chilkat is starting a background thread to call the synchronous version of the method. For example, the Async method returns […]
A Chilkat ActiveX user (in VB6) was struggling with a “Permission denied (Error 70)”. It occurred on the very first call to a Chilkat method (UnlockBundle). Solution: The solution is that the ActiveX DLL somehow did not have read + execute permissions. The 1st access to a method in the ActiveX triggered the runtime to […]
