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// assume strText is your CString ...
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TCHAR *czArray = NULL; 

<font color="green">// allocate character array</font>
czArray = new TCHAR[strText.GetLength() + 1]; 
_tcscpy(czArray, (LPCTSTR)strText);

<font color="green">// DO WHATEVERR

// Cleanup</font>
delete [] czArray;

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USES_CONVERSION;<br />
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CString Str(_T("This is my string"));<br />
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// explicit copy as single byte chars (LCPSTR)<br />
char charBuf[255];<br />
strcpy( charbuf, T2CA(Str) );<br />
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// explicit copy as wide chars (LPCWSTR)<br />
wchar_t wcharBuf[255];<br />
wsccpy( wcharBuf, T2CW(Str) );<br />
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// generic TCHAR copy (LPCTSTR)<br />
TCHAR tcharBuf[255];<br />
_tcscpy( tcharBuf, Str );<br />

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Peter Weyzen<br />
Staff Engineer<br />
Santa Cruz Networks

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CMyApp* theApp = static_cast<CMyApp*>(AfxGetApp());<br />

CMyClass* pClass = (CMyClass*)(ParentClass);
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But the (now) standard way of casting C++ classes take the form:
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CMyClass* pClass = static_cast<CMyClass*>(ParentClass);
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