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.  […]

Keeping an FTP Session Open

May 29, 2008 in Uncategorized

Question: We are making a timed call to an FTP folder to check for new files. Once a file appears, we download it. Is it possible to keep the session open between these timed calls, or should it be closed and re-opened every time we check? The interval is very small 2 seconds, but may […]

Modify Email on IMAP Server?

May 29, 2008 in Uncategorized

Question: I was wondering if the IMAP library for .NET allows me to go into an IMAP server, and change the body of a previous email? Is any email fair game? Or does it have to be in drafts? If so, is there a special way to save it to the server? If this does […]

Choosing Correct C++ Library for Linking

May 28, 2008 in Uncategorized

When linking with a Chilkat C++ library, you must choose the .lib that matches your project’s “code generation” property setting. For example, in VC++ 8.0, these are the Chilkat .lib’s: ChilkatDbg.lib ChilkatDbgDll.lib ChilkatRel.lib ChilkatRelDll.lib If “Dll” is in the library name, it means that you are *not* statically linking with the C runtime libs. Just […]

C# 3DES (Triple-DES) Test Vector

May 22, 2008 in Uncategorized

This post provides C# sample code for matching a test vector (known answer test). 3DES Settings: ECB Mode 192-bit key (i.e. 3 8-bit keys) ASCII Key Bytes: 1234567890123456ABCDEFGH ASCII Text to Encrypt: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Pads with zero bytes Hexadecimalized Encrypted Result: 13d4d3549493d2870f93c3e0812a06de467e1f9c0bfb16c0 70ede5cabbd3ca62f217a7ae8d47f2c7bf62eb309323b58b C# Code: string keyAscii = […]

PHP Three-Key Triple-DES (3DES) Test Vector

May 22, 2008 in Uncategorized

This post provides PHP sample code for matching a test vector (known answer test). 3DES Settings: ECB Mode 192-bit key (i.e. 3 8-bit keys) ASCII Key Bytes: 1234567890123456ABCDEFGH ASCII Text to Encrypt: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Pads with zero bytes Hexadecimalized Encrypted Result: 13d4d3549493d2870f93c3e0812a06de467e1f9c0bfb16c0 70ede5cabbd3ca62f217a7ae8d47f2c7bf62eb309323b58b PHP Code: <?php $cipher = […]

POP3 Sessions w.r.t. New Email and Deleting Email

May 22, 2008 in Uncategorized

The POP3 protocol is such that a new session is started after a successful login. The session is a snapshot of the existing emails in the mailbox. Any new email that arrives during the session will not be seen until the session is ended (i.e. you logout) and a new session is started. Also, emails […]

Purchased Unlock Code

May 22, 2008 in Uncategorized

Question: Very quick question for you about distribution. Is it a simple matter of just using this unlock code in the appropriate place in the code and adding a reference to the dll in my project? Or, do I need to include and run your MSI with the installation of my own application for all […]

FTP2 Events for FoxPro

May 20, 2008 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat FTP2 ActiveX has events for progress monitoring. The events may also be used to abort an FTP upload/download, or to skip files and/or directories. These are the events in Visual FoxPro terms: PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_PutProgress(percentDone AS Number) AS VOID; PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_GetProgress(percentDone AS Number) AS VOID; PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_AbortCheck(abortFlag AS Number) AS VOID; PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_BeginDownloadFile(filePath AS […]