Using VC6 code in VS 2005

I'm trying to reuse a database class module that I created with VC 6.0 in
Visual Studio 2005 and I'm getting a whole bunch of errors and warnings.
Most of them refer to data types being different than the current
definitions of functions that I'm using.

Examples:

If I cursor over SqlDriverConnect(..) the Intellisense says "#define
SqlDriverConnect SqlDriverConnectW" and the compiler balks at my connect
string being a char array. How do I "undefine" that?

Same with MessageBox now being #defined as MessageBoxW, and the compiler
won't accept literal strings or char arrays as parameters.

Some functions give errors like "cannot convert from 'char[80]' to 'LPTSTR'.
Both are char strings, no?

This one blows my mind:
// convert CString to number

int NumRecords = atoi(num_records.GetBuffer(3));

Compiler says atoi cannot convert parameter 1 from 'w_char_t' to 'const
char*'. Huh? CString::GetBuffer() dosn't return char any more?

I also get a slew of warnings about "depreciated" functions like strcpy and
strcat. I don't care, I use them.

Is there any way to set the compiler to use the old definitions, so I don't
have to rewrite my class module?

Thanks.


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