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. […]
Chilkat’s Online XML Signature Validator: http://tools.chilkat.io/xmlDsigVerify.cshtml gob.es FacturaE online validator: http://sedeaplicaciones2.minetur.gob.es/FacturaE/ ETSI Signature Conformance Checker (requires credentials) http://signatures-conformance-checker.etsi.org Validate UBL: https://www.moj-eracun.hr/exchange/validateubl UBL 2.1 e-Invoice Validation: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/ubl-21-e-invoice-validation-service/about FatturaPA (fatturapa.gov.it) http://sdi.fatturapa.gov.it/SdI2FatturaPAWeb/AccediAlServizioAction.do?pagina=controlla_fattura ADSS Signing Server: https://account.ascertia.com/demos/xmlsignatureverificationstep1 apis.gometa.org hacienda (Costa Rica) XML Validator: https://apis.gometa.org/validar/ RTR Signatur-Prüfung https://www.signatur.rtr.at/de/vd/Pruefung.html ICP-Brasil https://verificador.iti.gov.br/verifier-2.6.2/ Weryfikacja Podpisu Elektronicznego https://weryfikacjapodpisu.pl/index.html XmlValidation.com: https://www.xmlvalidation.com/ I don’t trust this validator. Change the signed XML document […]
Chilkat has resolved problems relating to the creation of XAdES-BES XML signatures for documents sent to www.csioz.gov.pl. These fixes will be available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.76. At the time of this post (31-Oct-2018) 9.5.0.76 is not yet released. Contact support@chilkatsoft.com for a pre-release if desired. Chilkat has worked with a customer to successfully sign […]
The bytes of a binary file, such as a JPG, PDF, etc. should never be treated as a string. Loading a binary file into a string, and then saving back to a binary file will surely result in a different file that is corrupted. This rule should be followed for all programming languages. Don’t […]
This post shows the general technique to get the object returned by a method when it is called asynchronously. For example, consider the Mailman.GetUidls() method. A synchronous call to GetUidls returns a StringArray object, as shown here: However, the async version of the method, GetUidlsAsync, returns a Task object. The TaskCompleted callback is called […]
This post clarifies the topic of binary vs. ascii uploads/downloads for SFTP (Secure File Transfer over SSH) and FTP. Binary mode transmits bytes exactly as-is. Text mode (also known as “ascii” mode) can modify line endings (CR’s and LF’s) to the canonical convention used on the remote system. For example, Linux systems typically use […]
Question: Have you ever worked with Avalara Tax Software? I need to write an interface between our application and Avalara. Do you know if I could use the Chilkat REST API to write the interface? Answer: Yes, you can use Chilkat REST to call any REST API. A good way to go about it […]
This post describes two problems and solutions for Amazon S3 that were recently encountered: (1) A Chilkat user found that the 1st HTTP request had a delay of 5 seconds, and then subsequent requests had no delay. Here’s what was found (reproduced with permission from the Chilkat user): I thought you might be interested to […]
We’ve seen this error when trying to sign using a smart card: msCngSignWithCert Acquired CNG private key. dwKeySpec: 0xffffffff key is CERT_NCRYPT_KEY_SPEC setSmartCardPin: setting smart card pin… –setSmartCardPin Using PKCS1 padding. msCngSign.NCryptSignHash failed. failed to sign. secStatus: 0x80090020 –msCngSignWithCert The 0x80090020 error is a generic “NTE_FAILED: An internal error occurred”. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/com/com-error-codes-4 To clarify: Chilkat […]
Question: When building my C# solution I get the following warning on several of the projects: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Warning There was a mismatch between the processor architecture of the project being built “MSIL” and the processor architecture of the reference “ChilkatDotNet47, Version=9.5.0.75, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ab5fc1f999ef09bd, processorArchitecture=AMD64”, “AMD64”. This mismatch […]
Question: I’m trying to read a very large xml file. It’s about 500MB. The content is a list of records. There are about 100,000 nodes with the same tag that contain single records. Is there a limit on the file size or number of nodes that can be processed? Answer: There is no limit other […]
