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.  […]

Unlock Chilkat at the Start of Each ASP Page

September 4, 2024 in Classic ASP

In Classic ASP, if you want to run the same code at the start of each web page, the best approach is to create an include file containing the code and then include that file at the beginning of each page. This way, you can centralize the code and ensure it runs on every page. […]

Background Threads (Async) in Classic ASP

August 30, 2024 in Classic ASP

* Chilkat recommends avoiding the use of Async methods in Classic ASP.  In summary, the Chilkat Async methods run in a background thread (within Chilkat) and you don’t want the background thread to be running after the processing of the ASP page is completed. In Classic ASP, creating and managing background threads is not natively […]

Classic ASP to Read JSON Request Body and Write JSON Response

June 1, 2022 in Classic ASP

Here’s a Classic ASP example using Chilkat to read an incoming JSON request body (such as from a POST), load it into a Chilkat JsonObject, and then write the JSON to an application/json response: <% If Request.TotalBytes > 0 Then ‘ Read the JSON request body into a Chilkat BinData object. set bd = Server.CreateObject(“Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData”) […]

Receiving a Webhook JSON POST in Classic ASP

July 3, 2020 in Classic ASP

Question: I need to setup a page in Classic ASP to serve as a webhook endpoint listener in Classic ASP The form product we are using (Paperform) posts the data to our endpoint as a JSON post payload. https://help.paperform.co/en/articles/2073207-how-to-use-webhooks Submission payload Webhooks POST a JSON payload on submission to the webhook URL. The JSON payload looks […]