extracting Friendly Name from VARIANT

hey guys, I have this VARIANT varName that contains the friendly name of a device that I need to print out. The problem is I cant figure out how to access the string within the vaiant. I retrieved the name with

Code:

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pPropBag->Read(L"FriendlyName", &varName, 0);

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I tried using pbVal, parray, and pbstrVal. All I get is a single character to print out.

OK, i fingered it out. Seems the string that is returned is a Wide character string, which means when I was passing the poointer, the high byte was zero, forcing the messagebox to think it reached the end of the string. Using the wide character version of the messagebox function properly displays the friendly names.