Hi, You cannot assign an CString object to a string. Every string assignment in .NET creates a new string on the garbage collector and recycles the old one. There is no global defined assignment operator for this available :(. You could try to write: strinEx = gcnew String(str); This makes no difference to the other assignment.

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