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. […]
Question: Help clarify something for me please. I develop in a 32bit environment, but deploy to windows 2003/2008 64bit servers. Do I install the 64bit or the 32bit ActiveX on the servers? Answer: In Visual Studio C/C++ applications, you may target either win32 or x64. If your application targets win32, you should register (using regsvr32) […]
Question: I’ve downloaded the trial version of your FTP2 ActiveX control. I’m using it in Visual FoxPro 9, but need to have a progress bar to track an upload. When using your asynchronous example code, the progress bar jumps from 0 to 524288 and so on. I need much more precision than that so the […]
Question: I am having a problem registering the ChilkatCrypt2.dll and ChilkatMail_v7_9.dll files using regsvr32. I get the following error message: 0x80020009 I am using Windows Server 2008 R1 and will also need to register on 2008 R2 (have not tried yet). Solution: Regsvr32 needed to be run in a command window that was run as […]
The following changes, fixes, and new features are available in version 9.0.7. SFTP Performance improvements for upload and download transfer rates. MaxPacketSize property default changed to 8192, which seems to be optimal in most cases. Added the following methods/properties: AccumulateBytes, AccumulateBuffer, ClearAccumulateBuffer. FTP2 Modes 4 and 5 added to SyncRemoteTree: mode 4 = transfer missing […]
Demonstrates how to save non-English strings to a file using Chilkat.FileAccess: set http = CreateObject(“Chilkat.Http”) ‘ Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days. success = http.UnlockComponent(“Anything for 30-day trial”) If (success <> 1) Then MsgBox http.LastErrorText WScript.Quit End If ‘ Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string. html = […]
ASP: SMTP using HTTP Proxy SQL Server: SMTP using HTTP Proxy C#: SMTP using HTTP Proxy C++: SMTP using HTTP Proxy MFC: SMTP using HTTP Proxy C: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Delphi: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Visual FoxPro: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Java: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Perl: SMTP using HTTP Proxy PHP: SMTP using […]
ASP: POP3 using HTTP Proxy SQL Server: POP3 using HTTP Proxy C#: POP3 using HTTP Proxy C++: POP3 using HTTP Proxy MFC: POP3 using HTTP Proxy C: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Delphi: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Visual FoxPro: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Java: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Perl: POP3 using HTTP Proxy PHP: POP3 using […]
This error occurs if you incorrectly add the ActiveX component to your VB6 project. Follow these rules: 1) If the ActiveX objects are dynamically created (they are not dragged and dropped onto a form from the palette), then add a Reference to the ActiveX. You should NOT see the icons for the ActiveX in the […]
To solve this problem, set the Chilkat.Mailman’s HeloHostname property equal to the fully-qualified hostname of the computer where your application is running.
If the SSH server is setup/configured to not allow SFTP, or your SSH user account is not allowed to use SFTP, the InitializeSftp method will return a failed status. Here is an example: ChilkatLog: InitializeSftp: DllDate: Oct 30 2009 UnlockPrefix: ABC123 Username: chilkat Component: .NET 2.0 SshVersion: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.5 SftpVersion: 0 channelType: session clientChannel: 200 initialWindowSize: […]
