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Downloading Data from the Internet


Internet Component Download is a system service for downloading and installing component code from the Internet. Applications such as Microsoft Internet Explorer use this service to automatically download and install COM Objects from code repositories on the Internet. This document explains how code authors should prepare their components for automatic download. It also describes the application programming interface (API) for the component download mechanism.

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