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. […]
Chilkat does not provide functionality for XML-to-JSON conversion (or the reverse) because XML does not convert to JSON in an unambiguous way. XML and JSON have different structural and data modeling principles, leading to potential challenges and ambiguities during the conversion process. Some factors that contribute to the potential ambiguities are: Hierarchical vs. Flat Structure: […]
Chilkat now has an Online SOAP WSDL Code Generator You can generate code and SOAP request/response XML from an online WSDL URL. The cumbersome and complicated procedure below is no longer needed. See the new Chilkat SOAP WSDL Code Generator at https://tools.chilkat.io/soap_wsdl_generate_code These are the old instructions for using SoapUI. It is much […]
Question: I’m trying to read a very large xml file. It’s about 500MB. The content is a list of records. There are about 100,000 nodes with the same tag that contain single records. Is there a limit on the file size or number of nodes that can be processed? Answer: There is no limit other […]
A bug affecting the .NET (C# and VB.NET) implementations of the Chilkat.Xml.Search* methods was introduced in v9.4.1. The problem has to do with passing a null (in C#) or Nothing (in VB.NET) for the first argument in the Chilkat.Xml.Search* methods. Passing a null should be a valid and common practice — it means to begin […]
This post clarifies the meaning of “child”. An XML node may have 0 or more child nodes. A child node is a direct descendent of the parent (i.e. it is one level below the parent node). Methods such as NumChildrenHavingTag will return the number of direct descendents (i.e. nodes that are exactly one level below […]
The Chilkat XML component library (for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP, VB6, FoxPro, Delphi, C++, C, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.) has a number of Search* methods. These methods search for a node in the XML document matching a specific criteria. For example, SearchForTag searches for the 1st node that has a tag with a specific […]
A Chilkat XML object represents a single node within an XML document. The “root” is the topmost node in the XML document tree. As long as at least a single reference to a node (anywhere in the tree) exists, the entire XML tree remains in memory. Typically, an XML API returns a new node object […]
