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.  […]

Twitter OAuth Example to Post Update (Tweet)

October 23, 2012 in Uncategorized

The OAuth functionality shown in this example is available in Chilkat v9.4.0 to be released in mid-December 2012. Pre-releases are available upon request by sending email to support@chilkatsoft.com. ASP: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account SQL Server: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account C#: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own […]

Chilkat Success/Failure Return Status Values in VB.NET vs. VB6

October 18, 2012 in Uncategorized

When programming in VB.NET or VB6, be careful that you are looking at the correct online examples. VB6 examples are located here. whereas VB.NET examples are located here. In VB6, it is the Chilkat ActiveX that is used, and return values (in general) are 1 for success and 0 for failure. However, in VB.NET, return […]

How to know that SFTP Upload was Transferred Successfully?

October 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

Question: In the online reference documentation, it says that “bool UploadFileByName(string remoteFilePath, string localFilePath)” will return true if success or false for failure. My question is that how does your component know that the file had been transferred successfully? Does it get ACK from SFTP server or that only means that client had sent the […]

SSH/SFTP Specifications (RFC)

October 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

SSH RFC 4250 The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Assigned Numbers RFC 4251 The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture RFC 4252 The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol RFC 4253 The Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol RFC 4254 The Secure Shell (SSH) Connection Protocol RFC 4255 Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints […]

SQL Server sp_OACreate fails (out of memory condition)

September 11, 2012 in Uncategorized

After successfully sending cca 250 e-mails I have error: DECLARE @hr int DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000) — The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email. DECLARE @mailman int EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate ‘Chilkat.MailMan2’, @mailman OUT select @hr — -2147024882 select @mailman — null The solution is to call sp_OADestroy when finished with each of […]

Chilkat v9.3.2 Delphi DLL API now Available

August 14, 2012 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat Delphi DLL API is now available here. This provides the ability for Delphi XE2 applications to use the Chilkat API from a functional DLL that is *not* an ActiveX and requires not regsvr32 registration.

Email Attachment Info when Downloading from IMAP without Attachments

August 8, 2012 in Uncategorized

If the Imap.AutoDownloadAttachments property is set to false, or if headers-only are downloaded, then emails will be downloaded without attachments.  However, attachment information, such as the count, and the size and filename of each attachment is still available. When an email is downloaded from an IMAP server without the attachment data, the attachment information is […]