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 v9.5.0.67 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.67 Release Notes v9.5.0.68 Release Notes: Version 9.5.0.68 is virtually the same as 9.5.0.67, but with one important bug fix in the JsonOjbect.UpdateString method that warranted a new release. Some additional methods were added to JsonObject and Http to help in handling potentially large amounts of data. […]
The Chilkat Mono assembly can be used in a Visual Studio project (any version of Visual Studio). (From a programming perspective, using the Chilkat Mono classes is the same as using the Chilkat .NET classes. The Chilkat .NET assemblies (available from Chilkat .NET Downloads are mixed-mode assemblies. The outer-layer is fully managed, and the inner […]
The v9.5.0.66 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.66 Release Notes v9.5.0.67 Release Notes: HTTP: Fixed a problem when auto-following redirects from HTTP to HTTPS. If the cached connection existed for long enough, and the server closed the connection at some previous point, then the redirect would fail. SFtp: Added the FileExists method. HTTP: Fixed […]
Here are a few snippets of code I needed for internal tools… TreeView –> JSON JSON –> TreeView
This issue comes up frequently, and hopefully this C# and VB.NET example will help people to understand what not to do.. Here’s the C# example (the VB.NET example is further below..) VB.NET Example:
Before Chilkat’s SSH Tunnel, your app would need to connect to a tunnel process/service running either on the local machine or on some computer on the LAN, and then tunnel out to the remote server. It would look like this: App ——(1)——> TunnelService —-(2)——> SshServer —-(3)—–> SomeDestServerSuchAsSQL You can wrap a non-encrypted TCP connection, or […]
The v9.5.0.65 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.65 Release Notes v9.5.0.66 Release Notes: Added the Jwe and Jws classes for JSON Web Encryption and JSON Web Signatures. The CkDateTime.SetFromOleDate method was not working correctly. It has been fixed, and the fix will appear in the next version to be released after v9.5.0.65. The CkDateTime.GetAsIso8601 […]
Most ActiveX objects, including Chilkat, provide what is called a “dual interface”. A dual interface allows for programs to bind at compile-time (early binding) or at runtime (late binding). The type of binding is determined by how the object is created. For example, compile-time binding in VB6 looks like this: Dim cert As New ChilkatCert […]
This is the second of a series of two posts to demonstrate implementing OAuth2 Authorization for Facebook in Classic ASP. (Also see: Facebook OAuth2 for Classic ASP – Step 1) This ASP is called when Facebook returns a redirect after the FB account owner either grants or denies access. Here is the ASP source for […]
