Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  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 […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

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 […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

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 9.2.1 Release Notes

August 11, 2011 in Uncategorized

(SFTP) Performance improvements for file downloads. (MailMan ) Added the IsSmtpConnected boolean property. (Socket, Java build only) Fixed problem with BindAndListen. (FTP2) Added GetSizeByName64 and GetSize64 methods for C++ and .NET builds. (Email  object) Fixed AspUnpack2 method. (HTTP) Fixed so that HTTP will neither save nor send expired cookies. (HTTP) Fixed so that HTTP will […]

Installing Chilkat SMTPQ on Windows 7 64-bit

June 24, 2011 in Uncategorized

To install the Chilkat SMTPQ Service on Windows 64-bit: Download Chilkat SMTPQ 64-bit and save to any directory. Run the ChilkatSmtpQ_x64.msi. On the “Select Installation Folder” dialog, do not select the default install folder.  Instead, choose a simpler, shorter path such as “C:\smtpq\”.   Also, install for “Everyone”. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to c:\smtpq. Right-click […]

How to Import a Perl Module

June 22, 2011 in Uncategorized

(reproduced from http://perldoc.perl.org/Exporter.html#How-to-Import) … In other files which wish to use your module there are three basic ways for them to load your module and import its symbols: use YourModule; This imports all the symbols from YourModule’s @EXPORT into the namespace of the use statement. use YourModule (); This causes perl to load your module […]

Example: How to Create an Email DSN (Delivery Status Notification)

June 21, 2011 in Uncategorized

ASP: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email SQL Server: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email C#: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email C++: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email Objective-C: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email IOS: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email PowerShell: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email MFC: Create DSN (Delivery Status […]

Bind to Adapter Functionality on the Windows Platform

June 13, 2011 in Uncategorized

The following is a note from a Chilkat customer, reproduced with permission: “Here is some info you might find interesting. As you may know, we’ve run into strange problems while trying to use the ‘bind to adapter’ functionality (i.e. ClientIpAddress property) of Chilkat (HTTP and FTP).  On Windows 7 it worked fine, but on Windows […]

Chilkat 9.2.0 Release Notes

May 26, 2011 in Uncategorized

(Email Object) The AspUnpack and AspUnpack2 methods were fixed to prevent the creation of duplicate HTML files. (Zip) On Linux systems only, the AppendFiles method failed in a rare specific circumstance. (TAR) Fixed Base256 internal decoding problem to support TAR archives larger than 8GB. (Email, MIME, Crypt2) Internal PKCS7 signed-data issue fixed for cases where […]

Using chilkat.SYSTEMTIME in Python

May 17, 2011 in Uncategorized

Demonstrates how to create and populate a chilkat. SYSTEMTIME object in Python. import sys import chilkat email = chilkat.CkEmail() sysTime = chilkat.SYSTEMTIME(); # The SYSTEMTIME structure has the following members: # wYear (such as 2011) # wMonth (1 = January, 12 = December) # wDayOfWeek (0 to 6, where 0 = Sunday 1 = Monday, […]

(Python) Using strings returned from sqlite3

May 17, 2011 in Uncategorized

In  the Python programming language, the strings returned from sqlite3 are unicode, not 8-bit strings. Chilkat API methods with string arguments expect either ANSI or utf-8 8-bit strings.  See these Python examples: http://www.example-code.com/python/python-source-file-encoding.asp http://www.example-code.com/python/python-charset.asp A unicode string returned from sqlite3 must be converted to an 8-bit string by using “str”, as shown below: … email.put_Subject(str(unicodeStr)) […]

Mapped network drives are specific to the user account that created them

May 13, 2011 in Uncategorized

Question regarding SMTPQ: On the new server I mapped a network drive that was connected to the NAS box that holds the queue: s:\  =  \\xyz\smtpq\ When I set the folders in smtpQ Manager as follows the service will not start Queue Directory:    s:\queue Undelivered Directory:    s:\undelivered However if I use the network paths as […]