What Type is a Microsoft Web Browser Control?

Mark Leighton Fisher on 2006-11-10T17:16:43

How do you declare the Microsoft Web Browser Control when you want early binding? As:

    Dim msie As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer

For whatever reason, most sample code on the Net just declares the Microsoft Web Browser Control as an Object. It has a perfectly good type – why not use it?