In Chapter 19, you learned how to create client applications that connect to a Web server through the Internet or an intranet. It's now time to find out how you can leverage your Visual Basic expertise to build applications and components that run on the server, right inside Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and its Active Server Pages (ASP). Before we delve into the nitty-gritty details of Web server programming, however, you need to have at least a general idea of what IIS is and how you can do ASP programming without using Visual Basic.