ProgrammaticIdentifier
Last edit April 16, 2005
In the
MicrosoftWindows
world, a Prog
Id, or
ProgrammaticIdentifier
, is a registry entry that can be associated with a Cls
Id. The format of a Prog
Id is <Vendor>.<Component>.<Version>, separated by periods and with no spaces, as in Word.Document.6. Like the Cls
Id, the Prog
Id identifies a class, but with less precision.
ProgrammaticIdentifier
s are mainly used by
AutomationLanguage
s which cannot deal with the GUID (
GloballyUniqueIdentifier
) structure. For example, the
ScriptingEngine
environment usually exposes some form of a Create
Object method which takes a Prog
Id.
How is Word a <Vendor>?
CategoryComponentObjectModel
CategoryMicrosoft