problem with MessageBox

[Lord_Vader]

Hello everybody,I have just purchased Visual Studio 2005 and I have problem with the MessageBox funtion!!! when I write for example MessageBoc("Hello") an error occurs: cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char [6]' to 'LPCTSTR' Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast why? In Visual Studio 6 there is no such problem please help

[sachinmali]

check ur coding MessageBox("Hello") ----->>Right MessageBoc("Hello") ----->>Wrong Sachin Think of your goal when you are confused.

[Cedric Moonen]

It's because unicode is enabled. You have two options: either disable unicode or use unicode strings: For the first solution, go into the project properties, C/C++ tab, preprocessor. In the "Preprocessor definitions" option, (you have to check on the grey button with '...' on it), uncheck "Inherit from parent or project defaults". This will disable unicode. For the second solution, use MessageBox(_T("Hello"));. This will tell the compiler that "Hello" is an unicode string.

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[Cedric Moonen]

It was a typo in his post only. Otherwise the error message would have been different: 'MessageBoc': identifier not found

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[Fletch57]

>>MessageBoc("Hello") Maybe it wants MessageBox(_T("Hello"))