std::string to LPCTSTR

Question

New version of the typical question of how to convert from std::string to LPCTSTR.

Reading from different SO posts I learnt that I should do th

Answer 1

Your problem here is the fact that LPCTSTR is resolved to wchar_t* or char* based on whether your build supports unicode (unicode flag set or not).

To explicitly call the char* version, call CreateDirectoryA().