Introduction

Simple DNS Plus API for .NET and COM - v. 1.1

The "Simple DNS Plus API for .NET and COM" is a code library which greatly simplifies and streamlines programming with DNS data.
It makes it possible to deal with DNS data as simple objects and eliminates the need to work with and understand the intricacies of DNS master files (a.k.a. zone files).

It builds on the existing Simple DNS Plus "HTTP API" interface which has already been available for several years. But it is much more than just a wrapper for the HTTP API.
All the master file parsing and assembly is done by the API library (which can run one a separate computer), so this does not add any overhead or complexity to Simple DNS Plus itself. Using these objects also improves the quality of the DNS data as they do a lot of syntax checking before submitting anything to Simple DNS Plus.

Possible uses

Building a web-interface for managing DNS zones and records.
Integrating DNS management with web-hosting control panels.
Updating DNS from other applications.
Making bulk updates to DNS zones and records.
etc.

Compatibility

Since this is implemented as both a .NET and COM library, you can use it with practically any development environment and programming language available for Windows - including, but not limited to:

ASP.NET web applications using any .NET 2.0 language including VB.NET and C#.
.NET server and desktop applications using any .NET 2.0 language including VB.NET and C#.
Classic ASP web applications using VBScript or JScript.
Classic C++ and VB6 applications.
PHP web applications (lastest version supports both COM and .NET objects)
Delphi applications (classic / .NET)
Windows Scripting Host (WSH) applications using VBScript or JScript.

System Requirements

Windows 98 / 2000 or later
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (also included with 3.0 and 3.5)
Automatically downloaded and installed if not already present.
Simple DNS Plus version 4.00.06 or later
But not necessarily on the same computer.