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 is a series of two posts to demonstrate implementing OAuth2 Authorization for Facebook in Classic ASP. (Also see: Facebook OAuth2 for Classic ASP – Step 2) The 1st step is to redirect to the Facebook Login Dialog where the Facebook account owner can grant access to the application. Facebook will then return a response […]
SshTunnel – Significantly improved the background tunnel management threads. JsonArray.TypeAt – Discovered that this method erroneously always returns the value 4. This is fixed. JsonObject – Added new methods: UpdateNumber, UpdateNull Bug Fix: .NET Async Methods that pass in Byte Arrays There was a memory leak specific to async .NET methods that pass in byte […]
When running a VBScript, on a 64-bit Windows system it is possible to run either as a 32-bit process, or a 64-bit process. If running 32-bit, then you need the 32-bit ActiveX. If running 64-bit, then you need the 64-bit ActiveX. To run a 32-bit VBScript on a 64-bit system, you do this: REM This […]
Starting now, Chilkat is going to log the changes, fixes, and new features for the next release as the work is completed. Pre-release builds can be requested for most programming languages and operating systems. Many builds are quick and easy to provide: .NET, ActiveX, C++, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, and others. Some however, are time-consuming […]
The GitHub C# Project to Check ActiveX Registration and Which VC++ Redistributables are Installed has been updated. Note: It should contain a pre-compiled executable located in bin\x86\Release (for non .NET programmers).
Version 9.5.0.63 is a new version that almost immediately follows v9.5.0.62. It will only be released for a few programming languages (ActiveX, .NET, Delphi, and Excel). Chilkat will provide this release in other programming languages / operating system upon request. The reason for releasing is that Chilkat wishes to create Quickbooks REST API examples, and […]
Added StringTable class. The StringTable class differs from the StringArray class in that it’s intended to hold a table of strings that is mostly read-only. The internal storage of all the strings is in a single contiguous block of memory for efficient (minimized) memory storage. Expanded the BinData class by adding new methods and making […]
Added a C# project on GitHub to demonstrate async sockets: C# Async Sockets
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