Error in BSTR TagVariant After project Migration from VS2010 to VS2017

[User 13229093]

**Error in line :

CString sURL = URL->bstrVal;

//bstrVal is BSTR TagVariant Error is** error C2440: 'initializing': cannot convert from 'BSTR' to 'ATL::CStringT>>' 1> with 1> [ 1> _CharType=char 1> ] 1>note: Constructor for class 'ATL::CStringT>>' is declared 'explicit' 1> with 1> [ 1> _CharType=char 1> ]

[Victor Nijegorodov]

try

CString sURL = (LPCTSTR)(_bstr_t)URL->bstrVal;

[CPallini]

Did you preserve the project Character Set value in the migration process?

Quote:

_CharType=char

is an hint a "Not Set" or "Use Multi-Byte Character Set" is selected, while "Use Unicode Character Set" would be possiby more appropriate.