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Try _bstr_t wrapper. Or use SysAllocString API, without any wrappers.
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Try _bstr_t wrapper. Or use SysAllocString API, without any wrappers.

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Ok... Should I be using the Detach or CopyTo functions if I'm passing the i pointer(i-&gt;name) into another function. &nbsp;
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Ok... Should I be using the Detach or CopyTo functions if I'm passing the i pointer(i->name) into another function.  

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I'm basically trying to do this....<br />
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i-&gt;name = CComBSTR((char *)name);<br />
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Without using the CComBSTR method because when I use it with Microsoft Application Verifier it's giving me an error. &nbsp;So I need another way around it....
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I'm basically trying to do this....

i->name = CComBSTR((char *)name);

Without using the CComBSTR method because when I use it with Microsoft Application Verifier it's giving me an error.  So I need another way around it....

Alternative To CComBSTR

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