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. […]
The Chilkat Mono assembly can be used in a Visual Studio project (any version of Visual Studio). (From a programming perspective, using the Chilkat Mono classes is the same as using the Chilkat .NET classes. The Chilkat .NET assemblies (available from Chilkat .NET Downloads are mixed-mode assemblies. The outer-layer is fully managed, and the inner […]
The .NET Framework version that corresponds to each Visual Studio release is as follows: VS2022 — .NET 4.8 VS2019 — .NET 4.8 VS2017 — .NET 4.6, .NET 4.7 VS2015 — .NET 4.6 VS2013 — .NET 4.5 (actually 4.5.1, but we only care about major/minor numbers) VS2012 — .NET 4.5 VS2010 — .NET 4.0 VS2008 […]
“Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet2, Version=9.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eb5fc1fc52ef09bd’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.” The “incorrect format” error is a 32-bit vs. 64-bit mismatch. It means the application is trying to load a 64-bit .NET assembly into a 32-bit process, or the […]
(Thank you Josh for your helpful information!) “I see that occasionally information from clients (with the client’s permission) end up on the blog and thought that perhaps this one would qualify. If there is mention of the C++ Runtime, I didn’t find it. At any rate, I was having trouble getting the ChilkatDotNet4.dll to load. […]
Question: We want to use the 64-bit version of the Chilkat email functionality, but we get a could not load error message (see below for full error) when i use the v8.5.0 release of the Chilkat library. This also happens when i use the 32-bit version. Is it possible that the license key is linked […]
