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. […]
There are two ways to reference an ActiveX in Visual Basic 6.0. The first is to select “Project–>References” from the VB6 menu. The second way is to select “Project–>Components…” from the VB6 menu. Important: You should do one or the other, but not both. Which do you choose? Use “Project–>References” if you are going to […]
The content at the following link is often referred to but hard to find, so I am posting a link from here: Deploying an ActiveX with your Application
If you see the following error on a Dim statement such as the following: Dim sa as New CkStringArray Make sure you add a reference to the appropriate Chilkat ActiveX. Select “Project–>References” from the VB6 menu and then check the checkbox next to the Chilkat ActiveX component to be referenced. (Select “Chilkat Util” for the […]
Question: I want my web hosting company to install your XML and Encryption controls on the server so I can use the ASP code. They are asking me the following question. “Can you verify with them that they support Windows Server 2003 and SQL 2005? IO am not seeing these listed on their site.” Answer: […]
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 […]
This table shows which objects are contained in which DLLs. If you use an object in the left-hand column of the table, then you need to deploy the corresponding DLL in the right-hand column. AppSettings ChilkatUtil.dll
For the most part, a 32-bit Chilkat ActiveX DLL will run on a 64-bit computer. However, there is an issue (to be explained here) that requires the ActiveX to be built specifically for x64. Chilkat provides separate 64-bit ActiveX’s on it’s downloads web page, and these should be used on x64 systems. The problem occurs […]
This page shows both Java JCE DES encryption examples, as well as examples using the Chilkat Encryption component in both Java and VBScript. Each of these examples produces identical output: The string: ABC123 encrypts to 6DA02B6AE1EA32D8 (as a hexidecimalized string) Java bytes-to-hex Encoding Utility Function public static String toHex (byte buf[]) { StringBuffer strbuf = […]
