Derive a custom class from CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 - mfc

I was trying to derive a custom class from CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007. Can you suggest me steps to be followed in order to derive a CCustomMFCVisualManagerOffice2007?
I am getting following error:
error C2248:
'CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007::CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007': cannot
access protected member declared in class
'CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007'
I am looking for something on the lines of:
MFC CMFCVisualManager Override

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