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You can always use C++ std::string or std::wstring class by including <string>

If your MSVC project is one with MFC support, you can also use CString (wraps TCHAR string).

I hope you realize that the variable called text is not a string - it is a character.

The correct code would be -

const char* text = "Text."; And...
...Look, it actually told you just what I...

You are welcome... ;)

This -...even if it compiled fine is not correct.

Your parameters are actually wrong.
MessageBox API accepts a TCHAR string.

The correct way to call it is -
MessageBox(NULL,_T...