Chilkat v11.6.0 / v11.6.1 Release Notes
See Release Notes for Versions 11.6.0 and 11.6.1
Chilkat v11.5.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features HttpCurl A new Chilkat class has been added: HttpCurl The Chilkat.HttpCurl class executes curl commands and can automatically resolve dependent values needed by a request. Variables such as {{access_token}}, {{site_id}}, or {{drive_id}} may appear in URLs, headers, query parameters, or request bodies. If a variable is not yet known, HttpCurl builds […]
Chilkat v11.4.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]
Chilkat v9.5.0.69 Release Notes
The v9.5.0.68 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.68 Release Notes v9.5.0.69 Release Notes: XML Digital Signatures Chilkat introduces two new classes for creating and verifying XML Digital Signatures: XmlDSig (for verification) and XmlDSigGen for generating XML signatures. More examples will be available soon. S/MIME The ability to get the digest and encryption algorithms encountered […]
Setup Google Account for Google Drive API Walkthrough
A software developer had trouble getting started using Chilkat with his application for Google Drive. He gave me his login/password to help get him started. This blog post is a recording of the steps I’ve taken to set things up on the Google side to allow an application to access Google Drive files using a […]
Java to copy byte[] to/from a CkByteArray
The Chilkat online reference documentation for the CkByteData class, concerning the methods for copying Java byte arrays into and out of a CkByteData object, are incorrect. This is the correct way to do it:
Chilkat v9.5.0.68 Release Notes
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. […]
Using Chilkat Mono in a Visual Studio C# Project
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 […]
Chilkat v9.5.0.67 Release Notes
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 […]
C# — Load a TreeView from JSON, Save a TreeView to JSON
Here are a few snippets of code I needed for internal tools… TreeView –> JSON JSON –> TreeView
Never Try to Handle Binary Data as a String
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:
Understanding Chilkat’s SSH Tunnel Class
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 […]