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Using WCHAR in a Win32 Dll

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Hi,

I have a Win32 library for which the character set is preset to - Use Unicode Character Set and I want to use a WCHAR array for storing a string literal constant.
For example:
WCHAR string[] = "MyWideCharString";


When I compile the code I get the error that states:
VB
Error   1   error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const char [17]' to 'WCHAR []'   14


I tried using _T macro also,but I got a compile error again:
VB
Error   1   error C3861: '_T': identifier not found 14


So how can I use the WCHAR character arrays in my library?
Tags: C++, Visual C++ 8.0

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