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.  […]

Understanding Chilkat’s SSH Tunnel Class

February 13, 2017 in Uncategorized

Before Chilkat’s SSH Tunnel, your app would need to connect to a tunnel process/service running either on the local machine or on some computer on the LAN, and then tunnel out to the remote server.  It would look like this: App ——(1)——>  TunnelService —-(2)——> SshServer —-(3)—–> SomeDestServerSuchAsSQL You can wrap a non-encrypted TCP connection, or […]

Multiple SSH Tunnels – ODBC Connection

March 16, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: Hi, I’m extremely interested in purchasing the Chilikat SSH dll. Let me describe my situation: I have several host sites (approximately 70 of them) that allow me to connect to their SSH servers. All of these sites have a database server (sitting on the same server as the ssh server) accepting connections on port […]

SSH direct-tcpip Port Forwarding (tunneling)

February 13, 2009 in Uncategorized

ASP: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) SQL Server: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C#: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C++: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) MFC: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) Delphi: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via […]

POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding)

November 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

ASP: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Visual FoxPro: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Java: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port […]

SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding)

November 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

ASP: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Visual FoxPro: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Java: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port […]

IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding)

November 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

ASP: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Visual FoxPro: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Java: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port […]

IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding)

October 1, 2008 in Uncategorized

These new examples demonstrate how to use IMAP in an SSH tunnel: ASP: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) […]