Until now, all of the example applications in this text have focused on console-based and desktop GUI-based front ends. In the next three chapters, you’ll explore how the .NET platform facilitates the construction of browser-based presentation layers using a technology named ASP.NET. To begin, you’ll quickly review a number of key web-centric concepts (HTTP, HTML, client-side scripting, and server-side scripting) and examine the role of Microsoft’s commercial web server (IIS) as well as the ASP.NET development web server, WebDev. WebServer. exe.