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title: "Microsoft Internet Controls Life Saver"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/microsoft-internet-controls-life-saver.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/microsoft-internet-controls-life-saver.html"
published: "2003-05-26T07:45:00"
updated: "2003-05-26T07:45:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If you're going to be using the Microsoft Internet Controls (i.e. \"ShwDocVw\") in your application, this article is a life saver . Lots of hidden treasures that we absolutly needed . Cool. Gotta love Sample book chapters…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Microsoft Internet Controls Life Saver

By Roy Osherove May 26, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 26, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

If you're going to be using the Microsoft Internet Controls (i.e. "ShwDocVw") in your application, [this article](http://www.devcity.net/page.asp?p=chapter&f=books-wrox-vbweb) is a life saver . Lots of hidden treasures that we absolutly needed . Cool. Gotta love Sample book chapters :)

Its from the book  [Professional VB6 Web Programming](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/186100222X/iserializable-20) , btw.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/