MSMQ help.

[jcisco2]

ok i'm going crazy here. i'm praying that someone can help me. please... i sooo new at c++ and i have a deadline looming. i bagged the socket idea. I thought i would try my next thought on application communication. which is MSMQ cause i know how to use the MSMQ through vb.net very well. I found on MS site example code in c++ but i'm having some problems with it. All i want to do is send one message to a private queue called test on the local box with a message title, and body. that's it. nothing else.
but i have no clue on what most of this example is tell me. I see that it is asking for a queue name on the input method (which mine is called test) and it's also asking for a computer name. (my computer is called apple or since i just want it to ref my local box do i call it local?)

I also have no clue on what a WChar is no idea what so ever. how do i put in my queue name into the wszQueueName? same with the computername

i tried
WChar qName = "Test";
WChar cName = "local"; //or is it "apple"? i don't want to have to hard code the computer name.


if anyone has any thoughts on this it will be a great help. Or if i need to clear up anything i would love to.

thanks.

HRESULT SendMessage(
                    WCHAR * wszQueueName,
                    WCHAR * wszComputerName
                    )
{

  // Validate the input strings.
  if (wszQueueName == NULL || wszComputerName == NULL)
  {
    return MQ_ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER;
  }
  
  
  // Define the required constants and variables.
  const int NUMBEROFPROPERTIES = 5;                   // Number of properties
  DWORD cPropId = 0;                                  // Property counter
  HRESULT hr = MQ_OK;                                 // Return code
  HANDLE hQueue = NULL;                               // Queue handle

  // Define an MQMSGPROPS structure.
  MQMSGPROPS msgProps;
  MSGPROPID aMsgPropId[NUMBEROFPROPERTIES];
  MQPROPVARIANT aMsgPropVar[NUMBEROFPROPERTIES];
  HRESULT aMsgStatus[NUMBEROFPROPERTIES];
  
  
  // Specify the message properties to be sent.
  aMsgPropId[cPropId] = PROPID_M_LABEL;               // Property ID
  aMsgPropVar[cPropId].vt = VT_LPWSTR;                // Type indicator
  aMsgPropVar[cPropId].pwszVal = L"Test Message";     // The message label
  cPropId++;
  
  
  // Initialize the MQMSGPROPS structure.
  msgProps.cProp = cPropId;    
  msgProps.aPropID = aMsgPropId;
  msgProps.aPropVar = aMsgPropVar;
  msgProps.aStatus = aMsgStatus;
  
  
  // Create a direct format name for the queue.
  WCHAR * wszFormatName = NULL;
  DWORD dwBufferLength = 0;
  dwBufferLength = wcslen(wszQueueName) + wcslen(wszComputerName) + 12;
  wszFormatName = new WCHAR[dwBufferLength];
  if (wszFormatName == NULL)
  {
    return MQ_ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES;
  }
  memset(wszFormatName, 0, dwBufferLength*sizeof(WCHAR));
  
  if (_snwprintf(
                 wszFormatName,
                 dwBufferLength - 1,
                 L"DIRECT=OS:%s\\%s",
                 wszComputerName,
                 wszQueueName
                ) < 0)
  {
    wprintf(L"The format name is too long for the buffer specified.\n");
    return FALSE;
  }
  else
  {
    wszFormatName[dwBufferLength - 1] = L'\0';
  }
  
  
  // Call MQOpenQueue to open the queue with send access.
  hr = MQOpenQueue(
                   wszFormatName,                     // Format name of the queue
                   MQ_SEND_ACCESS,                    // Access mode
                   MQ_DENY_NONE,                      // Share mode
                   &hQueue                            // OUT: Queue handle
                   );
  // Free the memory that was allocated for the format name string.
  delete [] wszFormatName;


  // Handle any error returned by MQOpenQueue.
  if (FAILED(hr))
  {
    return hr;
  }
  
  
  // Call MQSendMessage to send the message to the queue.
  hr = MQSendMessage(
                     hQueue,                          // Queue handle
                     &msgProps,                       // Message property structure
                     MQ_NO_TRANSACTION               // Not in a transaction
                     );
  if (FAILED(hr))
  {
    MQCloseQueue(hQueue);
    return hr;
  }