Not sure what's wrong with the following but I'm getting a few errors when trying to build. Maybe something unicode? Not sure how to address it since I'm just beginning to learn C++. Hopefully I can get some wisdom to get this working and avoid making the same mistake later. Errors: ------- Error 1 error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'char [14]' to 'LPCWSTR' c:\src\hello\hello.cpp 69 Hello Error 2 error C2664: 'CreateWindowExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char [14]' to 'LPCWSTR' c:\src\hello\hello.cpp 102 Hello Error 3 error C2664: 'DrawTextW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char [28]' to 'LPCWSTR' c:\src\hello\hello.cpp 134 Hello Code: ----- #include "stdafx.h" #define MAX_LOADSTRING 100 // Global Variables: HINSTANCE hInst; // current instance char szTitle[] = "Hello, World!"; // The title bar text char szWindowClass[] = "Hello, World!"; // The title bar text // Forward declarations of functions included in this code module: ATOM MyRegisterClass(HINSTANCE hInstance); BOOL InitInstance(HINSTANCE, int); LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM); LRESULT CALLBACK About(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM); int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { // TODO: Place code here. MSG msg; // Initialize global strings MyRegisterClass(hInstance); // Perform application initialization: if (!InitInstance (hInstance, nCmdShow)) { return FALSE; } // Main message loop: while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) { TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } return msg.wParam; } ATOM MyRegisterClass(HINSTANCE hInstance) { WNDCLASSEX wcex; wcex.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); wcex.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW; wcex.lpfnWndProc = (WNDPROC)WndProc; wcex.cbClsExtra = 0; wcex.cbWndExtra = 0; wcex.hInstance = hInstance; wcex.hIcon = LoadIcon(hInstance, (LPCTSTR)IDI_APPLICATION); wcex.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); wcex.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH); wcex.lpszMenuName = NULL; wcex.lpszClassName = szWindowClass; wcex.hIconSm = LoadIcon(wcex.hInstance, (LPCTSTR)IDI_APPLICATION); return RegisterClassEx(&wcex); } BOOL InitInstance(HINSTANCE hInstance, int nCmdShow) { HWND hWnd; hInst = hInstance; // Store instance handle in our global variable hWnd = CreateWindow( szWindowClass, // Name of the window class to use for this window // registered in MyRegisterClass szTitle, // Title of the application WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, // style that Windows should make our window with // (this is the 'default' window style for windowed apps) 20, // Starting X of the window 20, // Starting Y of the window 640, // Width of the window 480, // Height of the window NULL, // Handle of our parent window (Null, since we have none) NULL, // Handle to our menu (Null, since we don't have one) hInstance, // Instance of our running application NULL); // Pointer to window creation data (we provide none) if (!hWnd) { return FALSE; } ShowWindow(hWnd, nCmdShow); UpdateWindow(hWnd); return TRUE; } LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { PAINTSTRUCT ps; HDC hdc; char szHello[] = "Hello, you crazy world you!"; switch (message) { case WM_PAINT: hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps); // TODO: Add any drawing code here... RECT rt; GetClientRect(hWnd, &rt); DrawText(hdc, szHello, strlen(szHello), &rt, DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER | DT_SINGLELINE ); EndPaint(hWnd, &ps); break; case WM_DESTROY: PostQuitMessage(0); break; default: return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam); } return 0; }

Quote:Original post by jflanglois from VS 2005 issues
You're project is set up to use Unicode (which is not your fault, it is the default). To change it to Multi-Byte, go to "Project->Properties->Configuration Properties->General->Character Set" and set that to "Use Multi-Byte Character Set".

Ah thank you! Didn't know VC started doing that by default. Guess the Errors should have queued me into it happening but didn't see any header file #defines for _UNICODE happening. Silly Microsoft, hiding it in compile properties.