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The v9.5.0.68 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.68 Release Notes v9.5.0.69 Release Notes: XML Digital Signatures Chilkat introduces two new classes for creating and verifying XML Digital Signatures: XmlDSig (for verification) and XmlDSigGen for generating XML signatures. More examples will be available soon. S/MIME The ability to get the digest and encryption algorithms encountered when verifying signatures and decrypting […]
A software developer had trouble getting started using Chilkat with his application for Google Drive. He gave me his login/password to help get him started. This blog post is a recording of the steps I’ve taken to set things up on the Google side to allow an application to access Google Drive files using a Client_ID and Client_Secret. A Client_ID/Secret […]
The Chilkat online reference documentation for the CkByteData class, concerning the methods for copying Java byte arrays into and out of a CkByteData object, are incorrect. This is the correct way to do it:
The v9.5.0.67 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.67 Release Notes v9.5.0.68 Release Notes: Version 9.5.0.68 is virtually the same as 9.5.0.67, but with one important bug fix in the JsonOjbect.UpdateString method that warranted a new release. Some additional methods were added to JsonObject and Http to help in handling potentially large amounts of data. JsonObject.UpdateString — The passed-in string […]
The Chilkat Mono assembly can be used in a Visual Studio project (any version of Visual Studio). (From a programming perspective, using the Chilkat Mono classes is the same as using the Chilkat .NET classes. The Chilkat .NET assemblies (available from Chilkat .NET Downloads are mixed-mode assemblies. The outer-layer is fully managed, and the inner core contains the native C++ […]
The v9.5.0.66 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.66 Release Notes v9.5.0.67 Release Notes: HTTP: Fixed a problem when auto-following redirects from HTTP to HTTPS. If the cached connection existed for long enough, and the server closed the connection at some previous point, then the redirect would fail. SFtp: Added the FileExists method. HTTP: Fixed redirects requiring an authentication header. […]
Here are a few snippets of code I needed for internal tools… TreeView –> JSON JSON –> TreeView
This issue comes up frequently, and hopefully this C# and VB.NET example will help people to understand what not to do.. Here’s the C# example (the VB.NET example is further below..) VB.NET Example:
Before Chilkat’s SSH Tunnel, your app would need to connect to a tunnel process/service running either on the local machine or on some computer on the LAN, and then tunnel out to the remote server. It would look like this: App ——(1)——> TunnelService —-(2)——> SshServer —-(3)—–> SomeDestServerSuchAsSQL You can wrap a non-encrypted TCP connection, or a TLS connection within the […]