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Question: “When using Chilkat .NET from an SSIS script, make sure the ChilkatDotNet2.dll assembly is stored in the GAC (Global Assembly Cache). This is required to allow the .NET runtime to find and load the assembly.” However, when I try to add a reference to ChilkatDotNet2.dll it does not show up on the list of available dll’s. Do you have […]
Crypt2 Added “UU” and “Base32” to the encoding and decoding capabilities. Any method ending in “ENC” may now encode to/from UU and Base32. The encoding is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which allows for these new encodings, as well as all of the existing ones — Hex, Base64, Quoted-Printable, URL, etc. Added EncodeString and DecodeString methods. Added UuMode and UuFilename […]
This error can happen when trying to transfer a file or list a directory in Active (PORT) mode. The problem is usually solved by switching to Passive mode. Set the Ftp2.Passive property equal to True. Explanation of the problem: In Active mode, the data connection is setup like this: The client sends a PORT command telling the server the port […]
This error message is usually an indication that the VC++ runtime is missing on a system. Downloading and installing the Microsoft VC++ runtime that matches the version you need will fix this problem. To find the redistributable at microsoft.com, Google using this search string “visual c++ redistributable 2005”. Substitute “2008”, “2002”, or “2003” for different versions… For example, one recent […]
This note applies to the instantiation of ActiveX components (not .NET assemblies). If a call to CreateObject (VBScript) or Server.CreateObject (ASP) or sp_OACreate (SQL) fails with the following errors: Invalid class string Invalid ProgID It indicates that the ActiveX has not been registered via regsvr32 on the computer, or the registry permissions on the ProgID key prevent the object from […]
I found this PDF somewhere on Microsoft’s site, but now I cannot find it anymore. Therefore, I uploaded it to here: https://cknotes.com/microsoft-certificate-support.pdf This contains a collection of how-to procedures for certificates: Install certificate after deleting the pending certificate request (IIS 6.0) Installing Server Certificates (IIS 6.0) How to install a certificate for use with IP Security in Windows Server 2003 […]
This is an example that generally applies to all methods/properties in the Chilkat API’s that return a date/time (for the Ruby programming language) sysTime = Chilkat::SYSTEMTIME.new() # Get the last-mod date/time fileObj.GetLastModifiedTime(sysTime) lastModTime = sysTime.wMonth.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime + “/” + sysTime.wDay.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime + “/” + sysTime.wYear.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime + ” ” + sysTime.wHour.to_s() lastModTime = lastModTime […]
Question (solution is below) Today one of my customer’s got the following connect error when running my application. This same application works just fine on my system as well as almost 100 others. It had run correctly on her computer until she installed an upgrade. The connect error is: Port: 21 Host: www.***.com sockError: 10013 Connect: failed WSAEACCES An attempt […]
Question: We’re rather puzzled by what appears to be capped speeds on uploads, despite no cap being set. Testing uploads, we’re seeing about 350 KB/s via the Ck library to our (local network) FTP server. A FileZilla transfer of the same file to the same server can happily hit up to 7MB/s. I realize Ck supports bandwidth throttling, but those […]
Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim crypt As New ChilkatCrypt2 success = crypt.UnlockComponent(“30-day trial”) If (success = 0) Then MsgBox crypt.LastErrorText Exit Sub End If Dim plainText As String plainText = “To be SHA-1 hashed…” crypt.EncodingMode = “base64” ‘ Hash the string and base64-encode in 1-Step Text1.Text = crypt.HashStringENC(plainText) ‘ Now do it in 2-steps. Should produce the same results as for […]