How do I get the Variant result to wstring variable?

Hi, Expert,
I have several calls to get different data into a VARIANT var.  I need to assign the result of the var to a few different wstring variables.  I'm not very famililar with wstring usage and I wonder what's the best way to do this.  I currently have a buffer set up to used as a receiveing buffer parameter:
      wchar_t *syDataBuffer = new WCHAR[ONE_K];
      wstring syData = syDataBuffer;

      numCharCopy = GetDlgItemText(hwndDlg, IDC_Indep_Name, syData, ONE_K);

but I feel wrong to just use assignment operator each time for different wstring vaiables.  Does the wstring maks a copy of syData using its own allocated memory space?  Thanks.


bool CUserPage::SaveSyUserData(HWND hwndDlg, int index)
{
      //This method saves the currently display user data of the
      //selected context and push into the vector queue

      int numCharCopy, size;
      wchar_t *syDataBuffer = new WCHAR[ONE_K];
      wstring syData = syDataBuffer;
      CUserContextData newUserData;
      //CString csSyShell;
      bool setRet=true, noData=true, validated=false;

      if(ListView_GetCheckState(hwndListView, index))
            newUserData.symarkEnabled= true;
      else
            newUserData.symarkEnabled= false;

      newUserData.LoginName = NULL;
      newUserData.UID = NULL;

......
            numCharCopy = GetDlgItemText(hwndDlg, IDC_Indep_Name, syData, ONE_K);
            if((numCharCopy <= 0) && (newUserData.symarkEnabled))
            {
                  ::MessageBox(NULL, L"Independent Name is required when you select to use it as the Login Name.", L"Unity - DialogProc", MB_OK);                        
                  setRet = false;
                  goto CleanUp;
            }
            else if(numCharCopy >0)
            {
                  newUserData.LoginName = syData;
            }
      }
      else
            newUserData.bWinLogOn = true;

      numCharCopy = GetDlgItemText(hwndDlg, IDC_SHELL, syData, ONE_K);
      if((numCharCopy <= 0) && (newUserData.symarkEnabled))
      {
            ::MessageBox(NULL, L"Shell specification is mandatory.", L"Unity - SaveSyUserData", MB_OK);
                  setRet = false;
                  goto CleanUp;
      }
      else if(numCharCopy > 0)
      {
            newUserData.shell = syData
            noData = false;
      }