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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Question: How can I use your HTTP ActiveX library in VB to download a file with my connection settings “automatically detect settings” instead of proxy settings? Answer: Set the HTTP object’s UseIeProxy property = 1. This will cause the proxy host/port used by Internet Explorer (if set) to be used by the Chilkat HTTP component.
This was just discovered with one SMTP server: the error message: RCPT TO: <somebody@somewhere.com> 550 <somebody@somewhere.com> No such user here Was caused by forgetting to authenticate with the SMTP server. The SMTP server requires authentication in order to relay email to another domain (in other words, it’s protected against being an open-relay). The error message […]
Question: Is it possible to convert MIME to plain-text? Answer: The Chilkat MIME and/or Email API’s may be used to extract the plain-text body (or bodies) and/or HTML bodies from a MIME message. If a MIME-part is already plain-text, no conversion is necessary. It’s simply a matter of using the Chilkat MIME or Email API […]
