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: Can one test if a specific email address is OK before sending? Answer: The answer to this question is located here: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/p/p_235.asp
Question: Is it possible to check if an email is delivered properly? Answer: The Chilkat MailMan is an SMTP client. It connects to an SMTP server to initiate the delivery of email. Typically you would connect to your company’s or ISP’s SMTP server. If the email is to be sent elsewhere, the SMTP server relays […]
The content at the following link is often referred to but hard to find, so I am posting a link from here: Deploying an ActiveX with your Application
This article provides a step-by-step procedure for installing a certificate w/ private key (from a .PFX) so that it will be usable from ASP, ASP.NET, a Windows Service, or the SYSTEM account: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/p/p_309.asp
The following VB.NET code copies the contents of the nutrition.xml file (found in xml1.zip) to another pre-existing .zip named xml2.zip: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim zip1 As New Chilkat.Zip Dim success As Boolean success = zip1.UnlockComponent(“Anything for 30-day trial”) success = zip1.OpenZip(“xml1.zip”) Dim entry As Chilkat.ZipEntry entry […]
Question: After I send an email using Chilkat, I don’t see the email in the “Sent Items” folder in Exchange. How can this be done? Is it possible? Answer: The “Sent Items” folder is specific to Exchange/Outlook — it is not part of the SMTP protocol. You may use Chilkat IMAP to “append” a copy […]
Question: I was going to try to use Powershell to send a “digitally signed” message, but I am not sure of how to “install” the “ChilkatDotNet2.dll” so Powershell can call it. Is there a way, or do I have to use the ActiveX version? Answer: I’ve never tried PowerShell, but after a little searching on […]
If you see the following error on a Dim statement such as the following: Dim sa as New CkStringArray Make sure you add a reference to the appropriate Chilkat ActiveX. Select “Project–>References” from the VB6 menu and then check the checkbox next to the Chilkat ActiveX component to be referenced. (Select “Chilkat Util” for the […]
The following error can occur when trying to load ChilkatDotNet2.dll from a UNC path located on another computer. Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet2, Version=9.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb5fc1fc52ef09bd’ or one of its dependencies. Failed to grant minimum permission requests. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131417) It is because the .NET runtime does not give full trust to […]
The SFTP protocol does not specify how absolute paths should be formatted. For example, suppose your SFTP server runs on a Windows system and you wish to open (on the remote server) “C:\Temp\someFile.txt”. Passing the exact string “C:\Temp\someFile.txt” to OpenFile will likely result in failure. Different SSH/SFTP servers may expect different path conventions. To discover […]
