What do I have to do to have my IIS server return formatted text rather than an HTML output to the browser?

I'm trying to setup a system to remotely query a MSSQL DB residing on an ISP server via Internet using a VB client (not a browser) via ASP page. The return rows should be something I could parse easily so I don't want to have all those HTML tags included, just the data in ASCII row/column fashion.

Is there an easy way to do this? TIA.