If you’ve programmed in C or C++ before, you’ve noticed that you are setting the value of the m_str Message variable in a very un–C-like manner. It looks more like how you would expect to set a string variable in Visual Basic or Power Builder. That’s because this variable is a C String type variable. The C String class enables you to work with strings in a Visual C++ application in much the same way that you would work with strings in one of these other programming languages. However, because this is the C++ programming language, you still need to add a semicolon at the end of each command. Note.