The Server Object

Base Components

To help you create Web applications, IIS provides five ActiveX server components, which are referred to as base components. In addition to the base components, you can create custom ActiveX server components with tools such as Microsoft Visual Basic.

The following table lists and describes the five base components provided by IIS.

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Base Component	Description
Advertisement Rotator	Automatically rotates advertisements displayed on a Web page according to a specified schedule.
Browser Capabilities	Determines the capabilities, type, and version of a user 's Web browser.
Database Access	Uses ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to access information stored in a database or other tabular data structure.
Content Linking	Creates a table of contents for Web pages and links them sequentially, like pages in a book.
File Access	Uses the FileSystemObject object to retrieve and modify information stored in a text file on the server.

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When you use the IIS Database Access server component, ADO accesses information stored in a database.