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 following is a list of the most common mistakes made when expecting to find an attachment in an email object: You downloaded headers-only. If you call a method to download only the headers of an email, then the attachments will not be included. With IMAP you will still get information about the attachments, but […]
Question: Is it possible to change the Subject of an IMAP email? Answer: The IMAP protocol is such that emails (on the server) cannot be changed. This is not a Chilkat limitation, but it is the way IMAP works. In other words, if you want to change an email, you can download it, make changes, […]
The Solution: Issue solved. The problem was, that we stepped through the code and because of that too much time elapsed between connect and authentication. As we ran the program without breakpoints it worked. The Problem: The AuthenticatePw method failed and the LastErrorText contained this information: ChilkatLog: AuthenticatePw: DllDate: Jan 31 2010 UnlockPrefix: *** Username: […]
Question: (In VB6) One thing we would like to do is to read out the SHA1 fingerprint of the root ca. For example, the programm should read the user certificate. The user certificate has a certification path. Is it possible to read out the fingerprint of the top-level root certificate? Answer: Here is a sample […]
The download for the Chilkat x64 ActiveX components includes a register.bat batch file for registering each of the Chilkat ActiveX DLLs. If some or all of these fail with an error code of 0x80070005, it is because of a permissions problem. Do the following to successfully register the ActiveX DLL’s on the system: Copy the […]
Problem: An SSL/TLS connection failed and the LastErrorText contains “SEC_E_INTERNAL_ERROR”, such as in the error text below: (See cause solution below) ChilkatLog: Connect: DllDate: Dec 4 2009 UnlockPrefix: **** Username: **** Component: .NET 2.0 objectId: 1 hostname: *.*.*.* port: 443 ssl: 1 maxWaitMs: 20000 windowsAccount: **** ClientCertDN: **** protocol: default An existing connection was forcibly […]
Here’s an example that demonstrates a rough start to creating a C# console SSH shell terminal (where the user can type commands and output from the remote command echos to the console: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; namespace SshTerminalConsole { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Chilkat.Ssh ssh = new […]
Notice: The functionality described here is deprecated and replaced by a newer model for asynchronous method calls. The newer model was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.52, and is identified by methods having names ending in “Async” which return a task object. The Chilkat HTTP component has a set of methods and properties that allow already-existing methods […]
Notice: The functionality described here is deprecated and replaced by a newer model for asynchronous method calls. The newer model was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.52, and is identified by methods having names ending in “Async” which return a task object. The following example demonstrates the older, deprecated asynchronous HTTP functionality that allows for any HTTP […]
This is a summary of the steps I’m taking to debug the following problem: I am trying to login using Chilkat HTTP to this site: Startseite and after the login, there is a 302 redirect. After the redirect, the session is lost. I believe it could be another cookie related issue. 1. Make sure I’m […]
