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. […]
When Chilkat Zip writes a .zip, it first writes to a temporary file. (The location of the temporary file is controlled by the zip.TempDir property.) After the .zip is successfully written to the temp file, it is then renamed (i.e. moved) to the output filename. The reason for doing this is to safeguard an existing […]
Question: I assume in order to use zip64 for larger files, I would need to be using a 64 bit machine? If so, this will not work as many of our clients use 32 bit machines. What are my other options? Answer: Chilkat Zip supports the ZIP64 file extensions. If a zip is too large […]
Question: I have a need to unzip files from zip files created with Chilkat library, but I would like the library to allow me to specify the ‘SaveAs’ name of the file being unzipped. I have not seen how to do this in the examples or the API documentation. Could you provide any insight into this for […]
This example demonstrates how to inflate in-memory from a Zip in C++: CkZip zip; … // Assume we have a CkZip object and a .zip has been loaded. // It may have been loaded from a file by calling OpenZip, or from an // in-memory image of a .zip by calling OpenFromMemory. // (or any […]
New examples demonstrating how to create a Zip archive using Unicode filenames: ASP: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) SQL Server: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) C#: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) C++: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) MFC: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) C: Create […]
