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. […]
This is a note for PowerBuilder programmers: Some Chilkat classes provide a SleepMs method, which is provided as a convenience. The SleepMs method puts the thread to sleep for a number of milliseconds. However, this is not the same as a PowerBuilder Yield, which “Yields control to other graphic objects, including objects that are not […]
The v9.5.0.71 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.71 Release Notes v9.5.0.72 Release Notes: FTP2 Fixed FTP implicit SSL/TLS uploads for some FTP servers. CkString Fixed: In the Delphi DLL build, the CkString.split* and tokenize* methods caused a crash. Encryption Modification: Encrypting 0 bytes for block cipher algorithms with padding now results in one block […]
Here’s a C# class for persisting a TreeView to JSON, and for restoring a TreeView from JSON.
The v9.5.0.70 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.70 Release Notes v9.5.0.71 Release Notes: FileAccess Added the GetFileTime method to get the last-modified, created, or last-access file date/time. Email Automatically fixes FROM email addresses to prevent email spoofing as described at https://www.mailsploit.com/index FileAcccess If FileSize() returns -1 (failed), then the LastMethodSuccess property was not properly […]
Programmers using Chilkat to send email can do some simple things, and can avoid common mistakes to optimize the time it takes to send an email. 1) A common mistake is when a programmer calls mailman.VerifySmtpConnection and mailman.VerifySmtpLogin prior to actually sending the email. The intent of the Verify methods is for an application to […]
The v9.5.0.69 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.69 Release Notes v9.5.0.70 Release Notes: WebSocket Added the WebSocket class. FTP2 The LargeFileMeasures property now applies to uploads. (It originally applied only to FTP downloads.) FTP2 For synchronization uploads, such as for the SyncRemoteTree method, the AutoGetSizeForProgress property now applies. The local directory tree is only […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
