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 C++ Libs – Link and Maintain Single EXE?

September 16, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I am developing a single EXE in C++ that doesn’t make use of any external libraries and including MFC. Can I add your zip libaries to my application and still maintain the application as a single EXE? Answer: Yes, the Chilkat C++ libs may be linked directly into your application.  This results in a single […]

Improving MHT Download Performance with Caching

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I’m spidering search results and trying to archive hundreds of pages to MHT’s.  I’m testing your control and found it much slower than Internet Explorer. Also, while I’m not doing this now, is this control threadsafe if I ever wanted to try that to improve performance? Answer: Internet Explorer is faster because it uses multiple […]

SFTP and SSH: Separate Connections Required?

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I have an application using your code that does several SSH and SFTP command during processing. Can I just establish a connection, authenticate passwords and the other setup steps once and then use that connection throughout the program or do I need to perform these steps in every function? If I can do I […]

Exchange Server – POP3, IMAP, and SMTP

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: May I ask if is possible use Chilkat components to connect to MS Exchange 6.5 and higher ? I am thinking about purchase of MailMan component or other as it is, however I would like read some example in C# for reading emails from Exchange and sending emails via Exchange after connecting to the […]

ClickOnce w/ x64 DLL’s

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

I recently discovered this crucial bit of information: I compile my project for x86 systems (vs Any CPU or x64). Just wanted you to be aware of this. Your last email stated “You must deploy the x64 ChilkatDotNet2.dll to x64 systems” which is not correct.  This is an important consideration for “Click Once” deployments which […]

F-SECURE SSH/SFTP Servers Require Client Identifier to be PuTTY?

September 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

We’ve discovered that F-SECURE SSH/SFTP servers will disconnect during authentication if the SSH client identifier is “SSH-2.0-ChilkatSSH_2.0.0”. This may be overridden by setting the ClientIdentifier property to mimic PuTTY by using a string such as: “SSH-2.0-PuTTY_Local:_May_15_2009_16:25:24”

Socket Error: WSAEWOULDBLOCK

September 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

NOTE: If this error occurred while trying to establish an FTP data connection, also see this: https://cknotes.com/?p=282 A WSAEWOULDBLOCK error when trying to establish a TCP/IP socket connection indicates one of the following conditions: A firewall at either the client or server side is blocking the connection. There is no server listening at the remote […]

HTTP Progress Monitoring in C++

September 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

This blog post shows how to monitor the progress of HTTP uploads and downloads in C++.  The first step is to create a C++ callback class that derives from the CkHttpProgress base class.  You’ll be overriding one or more of the callback methods.  For example: class MyHttpProgress : public CkHttpProgress { public: MyHttpProgress(void) { } […]

BASE64 Decode with Charset GB2312

September 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I have a Base64 decode error, as follows: CkString str; str.setString(“16q”); str.base64Decode(“gb2312”); const char *strResult = str.getString(); convert result is { cb f2 } But the correct result should be { d7 aa} What’s wrong? The platform is WinCE 6.0, use Chilkat_PPC_M5.lib Answer: The following code shows how to do it correctly: CkString str; […]

Scan/Replace Text in Email Body in C++

September 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

This example may help C++ programmers needing to scan email bodies for strings and automatically replace: void EmailBodyExample(void) { CkEmail email; // Set the plain-text and HTML alternative bodies. // Note: Because we’re using literal strings, the strings passed // to these methods are ANSI strings (i.e. they are 1-byte per char // in this […]