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.  […]

Email “Received” Headers

August 30, 2013 in Uncategorized

When an email is sent, it should contain no “Received” header fields. Each time the email is processed by a mail server along the delivery route, a new Received header field is prepended to the email. The very first Received header is added by the SMTP server that the SMTP client (such as your app […]

Example: How to Create an Email DSN (Delivery Status Notification)

June 21, 2011 in Uncategorized

ASP: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email SQL Server: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email C#: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email C++: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email Objective-C: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email IOS: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email PowerShell: Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email MFC: Create DSN (Delivery Status […]

MHT and EML are both MIME

June 21, 2010 in Uncategorized

Question: I have added HTML email file support (thanks to your excellent examples and library), but I have a question. It appears that it might be easier for the end user to save their things they want to email as a MHT file instead of HTML out of MS-Word. That way they have one file […]

Sending SMS Text Messages via Email-to-SMS Gateways

March 15, 2010 in Uncategorized

ASP: Send SMS Message SQL Server: Send SMS Message C#: Send SMS Message C++: Send SMS Message MFC: Send SMS Message C: Send SMS Message Delphi: Send SMS Message Visual FoxPro: Send SMS Message Java: Send SMS Message Perl: Send SMS Message PHP: Send SMS Message Python: Send SMS Message Ruby: Send SMS Message VB.NET: […]

Understanding BCC (Blind Carbon Copy)

February 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

When an email is sent with BCC recipients, the BCC email addresses are not listed in the header.   The “To” recipients are listed in the “To” header field, and the “CC” recipients are listed in the “CC” header field, but the BCC recipients are intentionally left out.  This is what makes it a “blind” carbon […]

Appending to an email body

February 17, 2010 in Uncategorized

Here is a C# example to append more text to an email’s body: Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email(); bool success = email.LoadEml(“in.eml”); if (!success) { textBox1.Text = email.LastErrorText; return; } // Does this email have a plain-text body? if (email.HasPlainTextBody()) { string s = email.GetPlainTextBody(); s += “\r\nMore text appended to the email’s plain-text body.”; […]

Email Attachment Not Found?

February 9, 2010 in Uncategorized

The following is a list of the most common mistakes made when expecting to find an attachment in an email object: You downloaded headers-only.  If you call a method to download only the headers of an email, then the attachments will not be included.  With IMAP you will still get information about the attachments, but […]

Possible to use Email in non-HTML Mode Only?

September 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: Is it possible to use the email component in non-HTML mode only? For instance, I don’t want to be seeing HTML in the .Body after downloading the message from the server. Answer: Any given email can have a plain-text body, an HTML body, or both. The emailObject.Body property will contain the HTML body if […]

Verify Email Delivery?

September 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: Is it possible to check if an email is delivered properly? Answer: The Chilkat MailMan is an SMTP client. It connects to an SMTP server to initiate the delivery of email. Typically you would connect to your company’s or ISP’s SMTP server. If the email is to be sent elsewhere, the SMTP server relays […]