Basic question : Replacing CString when moving from MFC to Win32

From: John Sway (john_at_aol.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:48:30 -0600

We are porting one of our MFC apps to Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. Due
to disk and memory constraints, we cannot use MFC for these platforms.

So I have to convert our MFC-based objects into plain Win32 classes. My
question is what string type do you use for replacing MFC's CString? For
example, if my MFC class is :

class CPerson : public CObject
{
    CString m_strFirstName;
    CString m_strLastName;
}

How would I write this in Win32? I realize, the CObject will have to go.

Regarding the strings, will they be defined as LPCTSTR or LPTSTR? Does it
make any difference? Also, is there any "base" class like CObject in Win32
that will help when serializing our data?

Thanks!

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