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.  […]

Using 32-bit or 64-bit ActiveX Components on x64 Windows

March 15, 2010 in Uncategorized

64-bit Windows is capable of running applications in both 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode. If the application process is running in a 32-bit address space, the DLL must also use a 32-bit address space. (In other words, it should be a DLL compiled for the Win32 platform.) If the application process is running in a […]

Sending SMS Text Messages via Email-to-SMS Gateways

March 15, 2010 in Uncategorized

ASP: Send SMS Message SQL Server: Send SMS Message C#: Send SMS Message C++: Send SMS Message MFC: Send SMS Message C: Send SMS Message Delphi: Send SMS Message Visual FoxPro: Send SMS Message Java: Send SMS Message Perl: Send SMS Message PHP: Send SMS Message Python: Send SMS Message Ruby: Send SMS Message VB.NET: […]

Incorrect Format Error when trying to load .NET Assembly

March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized

This Chilkat blog post explains the following error: “Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet2, Version=9.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb5fc1fc52ef09bd’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.” When a DLL is loaded, it is mapped into the process’s address space. If the process is running in a […]

Getting Started with AES Decryption

March 1, 2010 in Uncategorized

This is a common question: You receive encrypted data and a key and want to decrypt. The person providing the encrypted data has provided little information, perhaps only that the encryption algorithm is AES. Where to do you begin, and what additional information, if any, do you need? Answer: AES encryption comes in 3 key […]

Chilkat 9.0.8 Release Notes

February 23, 2010 in Uncategorized

The following changes, fixes, and new features are available in version 9.0.8. General Fixed iso-2022-jp issues with converting to/from the iso-2022-jp character encoding. General performance improvements Added AutoFix property to POP3, SMTP, IMAP, and FTP2. If on, then the component will auto-fix property setting mistakes related to port numbers and SSL/TLS. For example, well known […]

How to Add Comment to a Zip Entry?

February 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

Question: How do I go about adding text to the entry.comment field while zipping individual files? Answer: After appending files via the AppendFiles (or other append methods), you’ll have a zip object with N entries, each of which is a reference to a file that will be zipped when WriteZip is called (or WriteZipAndClose, or […]

Understanding BCC (Blind Carbon Copy)

February 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

When an email is sent with BCC recipients, the BCC email addresses are not listed in the header.   The “To” recipients are listed in the “To” header field, and the “CC” recipients are listed in the “CC” header field, but the BCC recipients are intentionally left out.  This is what makes it a “blind” carbon […]

Appending to an email body

February 17, 2010 in Uncategorized

Here is a C# example to append more text to an email’s body: Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email(); bool success = email.LoadEml(“in.eml”); if (!success) { textBox1.Text = email.LastErrorText; return; } // Does this email have a plain-text body? if (email.HasPlainTextBody()) { string s = email.GetPlainTextBody(); s += “\r\nMore text appended to the email’s plain-text body.”; […]

IMAP: Select Public Folders

February 17, 2010 in Uncategorized

Question: How can I access Public Folders in IMAP? This does not work: imap.SelectMailbox(“Public Folders”) Answer: The syntax in Outlook may be different than what is actually used in the underlying IMAP protocol. For example, in Outlook you may see “public folders\all public folders\test”, but you would instead use: imap.SelectMailbox(“public folders/test”)