stl::string to LPCWSTR

It seems a lot of functions want to force UNICODE correct programming. This is driving me into the wall...

How can I convert a string to a LPCWSTR value? Everytime I try I seem to end up with chinese/gibberish.

I know my app has UNICODE on but I've read everywhere that VS2005 makes all appropriate changes automatically. So string is really typedef`d as wstring or something.

Any advice on getting this set up properly would be great.

Thanks,
Halsafar

std::string is always a std::basic_string<char>. If you have a std::wstring you could use .c_str() to get a const wchar_t* (==LPCWSTR). It would be the easiest to use wstring everywhere. An alternative is to convert the const char*s to const wchar_t* using something like MultiByteToWideString.

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Originally Posted by Halsafar

I know my app has UNICODE on but I've read everywhere that VS2005 makes all appropriate changes automatically. So string is really typedef`d as wstring or something.

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I really hope it doesn't. That would be a horrible violation of the standard.

I posted conversions between character sets here once. A search should turn them up.

I am not finding it...
Tried several searches and came up with to many pages of results to care to search through. None authored: CornedBee

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hlight=unicode

That was a thread that you started, by the way.

Well isn't that irony. I had already asked this question and gotten a perfect answer from you.

Thanks for the help (twice over) and sorry for the trouble,
Halsafar