In the Workspace window, select the Class View tab, right-click the tree item

COM_VC_BankSoft.BSoftFin

classes, and choose New ATL Object from the local menu that appears.

Highlight the Objects item in the left list box and select

Simple Object

from the list of object types.

Click Next.

In the Short Name field, enter a short name for the class you want to create.

In the BankSoft example, use the name

BSoftFin

, since you are developing a financial function for the fictional company BankSoft. As you type into the Short Name field, the wizard fills in suggested names in the other fields.

Enter the programmatic identifier for the class.

In the BankSoft example, change the ProgID (programmatic identifier) field to

COM_VC_BankSoft.BSoftFin

.

A programmatic identifier, or ProgID, is the human-readable name for a class. Internally, classes are identified by numeric CLSID's. For example:

The standard format of a ProgID is

Project.Class[.Version]

. In the Designer, you refer to COM classes through ProgIDs.

Select the Attributes tab and set the threading model to

Free

, the interface to

Dual

, and the aggregation setting to

No

.

Click OK.