> try

for completeness:

String^ testString = gcnew String("Test");
IntPtr ptr = Marshal::StringToHGlobalAnsi(testString);
LPCTSTR string = reinterpret_cast<LPCTSTR>(ptr.ToPointer());

//do stuff with string

Marshal::FreeHGlobal(ptr);

Ben

and here's a different method taken from Stan Lippman's blog
(http://weblogs.asp.net/slippman/).

this converts to a char array, which you should easily be able to
convert to LPTCSTR

note that vcclr.h is included

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <vcclr.h>
#include <string>
using namespace System;

bool To_CharStar( String^ source, char*& target )
{
    int len = (( source->Length+1) * 2);
    target = new char[ len ];
    pin_ptr<const wchar_t> wch = PtrToStringChars( source );
    return wcstombs( target, wch, len ) != -1;
}

bool To_string( String^ source, string &target )

{

int len = (( source->Length+1) * 2);

char *ch = new char[ len ];

bool result ;

{

pin_ptr<const wchar_t> wch = PtrToStringChars( source );

result = wcstombs( ch, wch, len ) != -1;

}

target = ch;

delete ch;

return result;

}

Thank you very much for your help that I've read only today !!!
I've also found an alternative using the wsprintf("%S"...) function...

see you

That has the same problem as the original code - tst becomes a
dangling pointer straight after the ;.

Tom