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.  […]

Chilkat v9.4.1 Release Notes

August 13, 2013 in Uncategorized

(MailMan) Added GetSentToEmailAddrs method (for information about any new methods or properties, see the online reference documentation). (MailMan) The GetBadEmailAddrs will not accumulate email addresses between mail-sending method calls.  The returned StringArray object will only contain the invalid email addresses from the most recent mail-sending method call. (C++) Most of the C++ header files (.h) […]

Chilkat C++ API Lowercase Methods Returning “const char *”

August 7, 2013 in Uncategorized

In any Chilkat C++ class, there are two alternatives for methods that return a string, and for string properties. The first alternative is to return the string in an output-only “CkString &” in the final argument. The second alternative is to return a “const char *” directly. For example, the CkSFtp class has the following: […]

v9.4.1 XML .NET SearchForTag Bug and Workaround

July 31, 2013 in Uncategorized

A bug affecting the .NET (C# and VB.NET) implementations of the Chilkat.Xml.Search* methods was introduced in v9.4.1.  The problem has to do with passing a null (in C#) or Nothing (in VB.NET) for the first argument in the Chilkat.Xml.Search* methods.  Passing a null  should be a valid and common practice — it means to begin […]

The Chilkat .NET assemblies are now available in NuGet.

July 10, 2013 in Uncategorized

Search for “chilkat” in the NuGet repository. Choose “chilkat-x64” if targeting x64 or “Any CPU” on a 64-bit computer. Choose “chilkat-win32” if targeting x86 or “Any CPU” on a 32-bit computer. An “incorrect format” error indicates the wrong choice was made.

Version 9.4.1 Release has Started

July 9, 2013 in Uncategorized

Announcement: The release of Chilkat v9.4.1 has begun and will be ongoing for the next week. The Chilkat .NET assemblies for the 2.0/3.5, 4.0, and 4.5 Frameworks have been released and are now available. The release will continue over the next week until all supported programming languages, operating systems, architectures, etc. have been released. Release […]