title: How do you convert a Visual Studio project from using wide strings to ordinary strings
body: <p>When I created my visual studio project it defaulted to forcing me to use wide strings for all the functions which take character strings. MessageBox() for example, takes a LPCWSTR rather than a const char*. While I understand that it's great for multi-lingual and portable applications, it is completely unnecessary for my simple little app. Quite frankly, it's more of a pain to constantly type TEXT() around all my strings. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a compiler option, define or project setting which I can alter to fix this in my Visual Studio project? </p>